I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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