A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
MEL BROOKSIf God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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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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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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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 only direct in self-defense.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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