If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSThere’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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