I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
MEL BROOKSIf Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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 only direct in self-defense.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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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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