I wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKS
MEL BROOKS
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks 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 BrooksMel Brooks There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks 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 BrooksMel Brooks I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks
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Find someone who can hear you even when you’re silent.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
Lang LeavLang Leav
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More on wish
My uncle’s dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
Rodney DangerfieldRodney Dangerfield We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.
Conor McGregorConor McGregor I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free.
Conor McGregorConor McGregor I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I’m not, and there’s no use wishing
Alan LaddAlan Ladd My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman