If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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