You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
MEL BROOKSImmortality is a by-product of good work.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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