Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKSI’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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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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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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