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.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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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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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.
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