Mad About You’ was very fun.
MEL BROOKSI was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Look, 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.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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