A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
MEL BROOKSIf Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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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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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 only direct in self-defense.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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 you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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 believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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