I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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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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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I wish I was better looking.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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