If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
MEL BROOKSI only direct in self-defense.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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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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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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