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.
MEL BROOKSAs far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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