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’.
MEL BROOKSOh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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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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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I wish I was better looking.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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