If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
MEL BROOKSYou got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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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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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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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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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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