I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
MEL BROOKSA lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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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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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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