I wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKSA lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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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’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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