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’.
MEL BROOKSIf presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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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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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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