Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKSHumor is just another defense against the universe.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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’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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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