You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKSWhen you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Oh, 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.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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