A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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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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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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