I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
MEL BROOKSI’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I wish I was better looking.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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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’.
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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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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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 love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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