I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
MEL BROOKSA brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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