I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
MEL BROOKSOh, 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.
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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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