I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
MEL BROOKSI wish I was better looking.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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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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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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