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" 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. "

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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. "

Mel Brooks

Cinema

Movies

" But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality. "

" Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers. "

" No, no, the songs write themselves, almost. "

" 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. "

Mel Brooks

Men

Meet

" Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. "

" 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. "

" When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin. "

" Immortality is a by-product of good work. "

" I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter. "

" 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, 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. "

" 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. "

Mel Brooks

Far

Mean

" I wish I was better looking. "

" We rest our case on the production numbers. "

" 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'. "

" If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. "

" 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

Know

See

" 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. "

" You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it. "

" I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front. "

" If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. "

" I only direct in self-defense. "

" 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. "

" Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. "

" 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. "

" A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. "

" If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win. "

" You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. "

" I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. "

" 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. "