Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
MEL BROOKS
If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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