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 BROOKSA brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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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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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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