Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKSWe’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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