Mel Brooks Quotes
Dark Helmet after everyone on the bridge announces that their last name is 'Asshole.': I knew it, I'm surrounded by Assholes.
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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I like to be around people, so I ended up being roommates, right? I had a house. I lived with four guys.
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Praise Him early, praise Him late, for our high and holy state; born, baptized, redeem'd forever, nought but sin our souls can sever from the Saviour who has bought us, from the Spirit who has taught us. Lord! renew us day by day, never let us fall away.
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If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.
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I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.
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In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.
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Dark Helmet after everyone on the bridge announces that their last name is 'Asshole.': I knew it, I'm surrounded by Assholes.
