You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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 love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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I wish I was better looking.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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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.
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