If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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 Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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