Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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