It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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 God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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