Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKSMad About You’ was very fun.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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