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.
MEL BROOKSYou’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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 don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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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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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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