You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
MEL BROOKSIt’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
MEL BROOKSA cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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I wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKSI wish I was better looking.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
MEL BROOKSMad About You’ was very fun.
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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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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
MEL BROOKSWe’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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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.
MEL BROOKSEverything 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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
MEL BROOKSWe rest our case on the production numbers.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
MEL BROOKSJudd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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He who hesitates is poor.
MEL BROOKSHe who hesitates is poor.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
MEL BROOKSEverything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I only direct in self-defense.
MEL BROOKSI only direct in self-defense.
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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.
MEL BROOKSRhetoric 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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKSImmortality is a by-product of good work.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKSHumor is just another defense against the universe.
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