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" I wish I was better looking. "
Mel Brooks
Looking
Better
I Wish
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" I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films. "
Mel Brooks
Loved
Horror
Horror Films
" 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. "
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You
Good
Chance
" You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. "
Mel Brooks
Always
Yourself
You
" If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. "
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Tickets
Fly
Funny
" Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. "
Mel Brooks
Said
Bad
Taste
" 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
Win
Run
People
" If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. "
Mel Brooks
Wives
Country
Presidents
" We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody. "
Mel Brooks
People
Get
Anybody
" I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn. "
Mel Brooks
Burn
Mission
Torch
" 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
Women
Wife
Short
" 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
Short
Say
Normal
" But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality. "
Mel Brooks
Bad Taste
Taste
Bad
" As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. "
Mel Brooks
Mistakes
Spinning
Long
" No, no, the songs write themselves, almost. "
Mel Brooks
Write
Themselves
Almost
" When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin. "
Mel Brooks
You
Always
Come
" I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel. "
Mel Brooks
Like
Me
Army
" You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it. "
Mel Brooks
Be Brave
You
Risk
" I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front. "
Mel Brooks
Believe
Front
Business
" There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere. "
Mel Brooks
Film
Me
Somewhere
" If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. "
Mel Brooks
Beat
None
Got
" Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you. "
Mel Brooks
Just
Around
Life
" Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy. "
Mel Brooks
Big
Laughter
Size
" My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. "
Mel Brooks
Out
Most
Job
" I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. "
Mel Brooks
Soldier
Months
Last
" Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director. "
Mel Brooks
Both
Producer
Pretty
" I only direct in self-defense. "
Mel Brooks
Self-Defense
Direct
Only
" A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. "
Mel Brooks
Cinema
Movies
Up
" We rest our case on the production numbers. "
Mel Brooks
Rest
Case
Numbers
" I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. "
Mel Brooks
Comedy
Accept
Long