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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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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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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