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.
MEL BROOKSEverything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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