We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
MEL BROOKSIf Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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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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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.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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