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I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

Mel Brooks

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

Mel Brooks

He who hesitates is poor.

Mel Brooks

We rest our case on the production numbers.

Mel Brooks

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Mel Brooks

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

Mel Brooks

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

Mel Brooks

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

Mel Brooks

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

Mel Brooks

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Mel Brooks

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

Mel Brooks

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.

Mel Brooks

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Mel Brooks

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

Mel Brooks

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

Mel Brooks

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

Mel Brooks

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

Mel Brooks

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

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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.

Mel Brooks

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

Mel Brooks

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

Mel Brooks

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.

Mel Brooks

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

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I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

Mel Brooks

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Mel Brooks

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

Mel Brooks

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

Mel Brooks

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.

Mel Brooks

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 wish I was better looking.

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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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