I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
MEL BROOKSI’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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