Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSI like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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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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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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