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Mel Brooks

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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.


— Mel Brooks


#i #mission #torch

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


#great #how #i #know #like

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.


— Mel Brooks


#chris rock #dangerous #i #like #rock

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.


— Mel Brooks


#i love #love #songs #songwriter #writing

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


— Mel Brooks


#combat #couple #i #last #months

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.


— Mel Brooks


#i #like #me

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.


— Mel Brooks


#bad #bad taste #comedy #great #i

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


#away #derby #dry #go #go away

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


— Mel Brooks


#never #rhetoric #soapbox #stand #trade

Immortality is a by-product of good work.


— Mel Brooks


#good #good work #immortality #work






About Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks Quotes




Did you know about Mel Brooks?

He also began acting in summer stock in Red Bank New Jersey and did some radio work. Around this time he changed his professional name to "Mel Brooks" after being confused with the well-known Borscht Belt trumpet player Max Kaminsky. Brooks himself has a cameo as an alcoholic ex-serf who "yearns for the regular beatings of yesteryear.

His most well known films include The Producers Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein Silent Movie High Anxiety and Spaceballs. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of all-time all of which ranked in the top 20 of the list: Blazing Saddles at number 6 The Producers at number 11 and Young Frankenstein at number 13. He is to receive the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013.

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