I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
MEL BROOKSIt’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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