Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
MEL BROOKSIt’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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