We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
MEL BROOKSI loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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 loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
MEL BROOKS