I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
MEL BROOKSEverything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I wish I was better looking.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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