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’.
MEL BROOKSI was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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 loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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 God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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