Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
MEL BROOKSYou got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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