I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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All 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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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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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I wish I was better looking.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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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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