When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
MEL BROOKSIt’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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