I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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