If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSMy job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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