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 BROOKSImmortality is a by-product of good work.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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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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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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