I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
MEL BROOKSI was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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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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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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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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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I wish I was better looking.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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