We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
MEL BROOKSWell, 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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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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 long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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