Mel Brooks Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Mel Brooks

  Running, Horse, Winning

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

  Mel Brooks

  Taste, Bad Taste

  "'I do bad taste with intelligence'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2005.

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• I only direct in self-defense.

  Mel Brooks

  Self, Defense, Comedy

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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.

  Mel Brooks

  Genius, Normal, True Genius

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that philosophical treatise about having black beginnings and wanting love to compensate for that, wanting audiences and wanting attention - I say, "Au contraire." Completely opposite. I want the continuation of my mother's incredible love and attention to me.

  Mel Brooks

  Mother, Philosophical, Opposites

  "Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. December 13, 2012.

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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

  Long, Mind, Taste

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• In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

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  Real, Real Love, Spoof

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

  Mel Brooks

  Believe, Progress, Behinds

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• Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.

  Mel Brooks

  Girl, Years, Peaches

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!

  Mel Brooks

  Crazy, Nuts, Guy

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• If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

  Mel Brooks

  Winning, Soapbox, Dictator

  "Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2011.

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• Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.

  Mel Brooks

  Laughing, Berlin, Should

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• 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

  Two, Wife, Inches

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• Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

  Mel Brooks

  Writing, Dying

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• I also try to surround myself with people I love - make a family out of the company. So I tend to use the same people over and over. There's a sort of Mel Brooks Repertory Company.

  Mel Brooks

  People, Trying, Use

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.

  Mel Brooks

  Believe, Hero, Years

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

  Mel Brooks

  Mean, Guy, Fans

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

  Mel Brooks

  Army

  "I do bad taste with intelligence" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2005.

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• Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

  Mel Brooks

  Genius, Steps, Poetic

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• I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

  Mel Brooks

  Torches, Missions

  "Q & A with Get Smart's Mel Brooks". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, www.news.com.au. March 18, 2009.

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• Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.

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  Money, Real, Yogurt

  "Spaceballs". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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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

  Musical, Stage, Know How

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• Directing is a terrible, anxious process. It's all collaboration, and if you have a dream, it's diluted very quickly by the slightest ineptness in any of your collaborators. They're supposed to help you, but too often they help you into your grave.

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  Dream, Collaboration, Helping

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• When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.

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  Kids, Boys, Adults

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

  Mel Brooks

  Army, Thinking, Stories

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