You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
MEL BROOKSIf presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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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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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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