A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I wish I was better looking.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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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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