Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSMad About You’ was very fun.
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 wish I was better looking.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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