When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKSI don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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