If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSBad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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