He who hesitates is poor.
MEL BROOKSAs 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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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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 was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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