He who hesitates is poor.
MEL BROOKSYou’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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