If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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 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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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