Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
MEL BROOKSLook, 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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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