Mel Brooks Quotes

I only direct in self-defense.
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Defence Direct Only Self
I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Like Me
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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At All Basically Jewish Rather Secure
A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Balance Lot
If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Do President Wives
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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Anywhere Chance Get Just Rhetoric You
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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Anxiety Bless Lot Timidity
Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Both Director Producer
I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Be Behind Being Front Too
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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Cinema Cook Essentially Gleefully Moustache Nasty Next Plan Twiddle

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