There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
MEL BROOKSWell, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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 was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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 loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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