Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKSI’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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