You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKSI don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I only direct in self-defense.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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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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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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