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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. "
Mel Brooks
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" I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. "
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" He who hesitates is poor. "
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" We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody. "
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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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" I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel. "
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" We rest our case on the production numbers. "
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Rest
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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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Men
Meet
Me
" A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. "
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Mathematics
Lot
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" You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it. "
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You
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" Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you. "
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Just
Around
Life
" I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. "
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Comedy
Accept
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" Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. "
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Based
Fear
Everything
" A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. 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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Blessed
Anxiety
Balance
" If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. "
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You
Got
Living
" It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't. "
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Talent
Got
Either
" No, no, the songs write themselves, almost. "
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Write
Themselves
Almost
" 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. "
Mel Brooks
Win
Run
People
" 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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You
Ideas
Support
" Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. "
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Tragedy
You
Die
" Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. "
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Direct
Good
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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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Women
Wife
Short
" 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
Movies
Up
" I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. "
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Soldier
Months
Last
" 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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You
Good
Chance
" If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. "
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Beat
None
Got
" Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director. "
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Both
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