Mel Brooks Quotes

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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities, and have them relate to other characters living within him.

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You know Cuneiform? You know Sanskrit? It's neither of those.

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Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.

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[Movies are] the most expensive art form ever invented. Leonardo didn't need to ask a studio chief for the money to draw a lower jaw. All he needed was a nickel for a pencil. Goya could paint you a national tragedy for $1.69. But to make a movie you need $1 million.

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It [Europe] gives me a good deal of pleasure, but it's always fighting, fighting. I tell you, I'll be so happy when it finally settles down and gets married.

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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.

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One day God said, 'Let there be prey,' and he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

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It's Wheird, there's an H in there. Gotta hit that H otherwise they think I'm some sort of a kook!

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I was in the middle of shooting the last few weeks of Blazing Saddles somewhere in the Antelope Valley, and Gene Wilder and I were having a cup of coffee and he said, I have this idea that there could be another "Frankenstein." I said not another — we've had the son of, the cousin of, the brother-in-law, we don't need another Frankenstein. His idea was very simple: What if the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein wanted nothing to do with the family whatsoever. He was ashamed of those wackos. I said, "That's funny."

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That's it, baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.

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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

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[explaining that Paul Revere was Anti-Semitic] He was scared they were moving into the neighborhood. "They're coming, they're coming. The Yiddish, they're coming"

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Me? Not like the Germans? Why should I not like Germans? Just because they're arrogant and have fat necks and do anything they're told so long as it's cruel, and killed millions of Jews in concentration camps and made soap out of their bodies and lamp shades out of their skins? Is that any reason to hate their fucking guts?

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