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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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, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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I wish I was better looking.
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