Quotes by Mel Brooks

About Mel Brooks:

Melvin James "Mel" Brooks is an American film director, screenwriter, comedian, actor, producer, composer, and songwriter.
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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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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.

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I only direct in self-defense.

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

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

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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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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

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

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

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He who hesitates is poor.

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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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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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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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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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Author Bio

  • NameMel Brooks
  • DescriptionAmerican director, writer, actor, and producer
  • BornJune 28, 1926
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Film Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer; Composer; Voice Actor; Songwriter; Writer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Writing (Original Screenplay); Grammy Award; Primetime Emmy Award