If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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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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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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