You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
MEL BROOKSA lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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