As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
MEL BROOKSIf Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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