I wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKSIf you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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