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.
MEL BROOKSI’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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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