Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
MEL BROOKSHe who hesitates is poor.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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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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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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