Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
MEL BROOKSThere’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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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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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 God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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