If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSBut I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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You’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
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