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’.
MEL BROOKSHe who hesitates is poor.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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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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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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