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.
MEL BROOKSWe want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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