Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKSLook, 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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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’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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