I wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKSYou got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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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 was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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 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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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