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.
MEL BROOKSI like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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