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.
MEL BROOKSWell, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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’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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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