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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More Mel Brooks Quotes
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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