Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSThese 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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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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 was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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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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