A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
MEL BROOKSEvery human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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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’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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