If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSYou’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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I wish I was better looking.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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