You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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Look, 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.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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