If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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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’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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