I only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKSYou got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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.
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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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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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