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.
MEL BROOKSIf God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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.
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