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.
MEL BROOKSHumor is just another defense against the universe.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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