You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
MEL BROOKSIf presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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 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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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