Immortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKSI only direct in self-defense.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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