If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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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’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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