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.
MEL BROOKSYou’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.
MEL BROOKSMad About You’ was very fun.
MEL BROOKSA cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
MEL BROOKSNo, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
MEL BROOKSI wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKSI don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
MEL BROOKSWell, 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’.
MEL BROOKSAs long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
MEL BROOKSYou’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKSThe 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.
MEL BROOKSI was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
MEL BROOKSMy job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSLook, 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.
MEL BROOKSEvery human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
MEL BROOKSAll 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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