Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
MEL BROOKSWe’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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