I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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