A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
MEL BROOKSYou’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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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 you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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