If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSI don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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 wish I was better looking.
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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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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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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 presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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