I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
MEL BROOKSImmortality is a by-product of good work.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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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’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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I wish I was better looking.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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