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.
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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I wish I was better looking.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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