You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKSAs long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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