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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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