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.
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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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