I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
MEL BROOKSEverything 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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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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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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I’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.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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