Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
MEL BROOKSIf presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I wish I was better looking.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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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 you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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