The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
MEL BROOKSMad About You’ was very fun.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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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.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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