We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I wish I was better looking.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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