Mel Brooks Quotes

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Mel Brooks

Profession : Comedian

Birth : June 28, 1926

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

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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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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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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

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Immortality is a by-product of good work.

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We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

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A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

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I wish I was better looking.

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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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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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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

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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 was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

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