Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
MEL BROOKSBut I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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 only direct in self-defense.
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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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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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