I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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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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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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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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