I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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 only direct in self-defense.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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