When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKSI only direct in self-defense.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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