If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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