But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKSRhetoric 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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