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.
MEL BROOKSJudd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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