Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
MEL BROOKSIf Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I wish I was better looking.
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