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Mel Brooks Inspirational Quotes (96)

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I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
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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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Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
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Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids.
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When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.
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The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
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Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'
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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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If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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