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 BROOKSI love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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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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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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