There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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’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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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