Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
MEL BROOKSIf you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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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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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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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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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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 like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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