Mel Brooks Quotes - Page 7

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• When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.

  Mel Brooks

  Kids, Boys, Adults

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

  Mel Brooks

  Army, Thinking, Stories

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• Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the best and everyone else should be incinerated. They don't know right from wrong. That's what makes a satire of these government bureaus really funny.

  Mel Brooks

  Government, Organization, Troops

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• When I was a little kid at home, I thought the whole world was Jewish. For years I thought Roosevelt was Jewish. I loved him. I thought of him as my father. I'm always stunned when I find out that people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?

  Mel Brooks

  Father, Home, Kids

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• My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

  Mel Brooks

  Brother, School, Ruins

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• I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.

  Mel Brooks

  Years, Songwriting, Songwriters

  Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. December 8, 2005.

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• Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.

  Mel Brooks

  Heart, Gifted Writers, Mind

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• No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.

  Mel Brooks

  Writing, Heart, Creative

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• The audience got jaded, they want a hit, they want a big success, and so you don't want to experiment because you say, well, I'll disappoint the audience, they may not like it, I better do something that I think is more commercial.

  Mel Brooks

  Thinking, May, Want

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

  Mel Brooks

  Couple, War, Soldier

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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.

  Mel Brooks

  Men, Trying, Would Be

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