No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
MEL BROOKSIf presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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