Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKSIt’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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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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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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