I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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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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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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