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Lead Tenor Stormtrooper: Springtime, for Hitler, and Germany Winter, for Poland and France! (Mel Brooks)
Hope for the best. Expect the worst. The world's a stage. We're unrehearsed. No way of knowing which way it's going. Take your chances, there are no answers. Hope for the best. Expect the worst. View quote
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Dr. Frankenstein:: Igor, would you give me a hand with the bags? Igor:: [doing a Groucho Marx] Certainly, you take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban. View quote
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Josephus: I'm Josephus, and I'm the main course over at the Colosseum! View quote
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Tomás de Torquemada: It's better to lose your skullcap than your skull. View quote
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Radar Officer: I've lost the sweeps, the bleeps, and the creeps! [Explains via vocal sound effects] Dark Helmet [aside to Colonel Sandurz]: That's not all he's lost. View quote
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Dark Helmet: What's the matter Colonel Sandurz... chicken?! View quote
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit. View quote
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. View quote
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We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody. View quote
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Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise. . ., or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively. (Mel Brooks)
Count de Monet [consistently mispronounced as "count da money"]: Bearnaise, do we have any of those delicious raisins left? Bearnaise: You ate yours. These are mine. Count de Monet: Au contraire, they are mine! I paid for them! Hand them over! Bearnaise [sotto voce, mimicking]: 'I paid for them! They're mine!' View quote
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Good taste is the enemy of comedy. View quote
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That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it. View quote
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. View quote
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win. View quote
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. View quote
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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. View quote
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Immortality is a by-product of good work. View quote
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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. View quote
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy. (Mel Brooks)
My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. View quote
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director. View quote
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart. View quote
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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. View quote
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