Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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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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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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