I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
MEL BROOKSIf you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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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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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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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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