If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSEverything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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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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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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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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 presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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