Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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 God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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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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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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