My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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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’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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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