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.
MEL BROOKSI know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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