As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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