If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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