If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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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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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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