I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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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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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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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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 loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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