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.
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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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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