But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKSMy job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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 loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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 want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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