Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
MEL BROOKSYou got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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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 Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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