If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSI like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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