If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSAs long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I wish I was better looking.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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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.
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