A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
MEL BROOKSBad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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