I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.
Mel Brooks
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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
I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.
Mel Brooks
My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.
Mel Brooks
What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that philosophical treatise about having black beginnings and wanting love to compensate for that, wanting audiences and wanting attention - I say, "Au contraire." Completely opposite. I want the continuation of my mother's incredible love and attention to me.
Mel Brooks
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 with him.
Mel Brooks
