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’.
MEL BROOKSLook, 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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