I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
MEL BROOKSEverything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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 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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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