I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
MEL BROOKSI only direct in self-defense.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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 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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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