I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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’.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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