You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKSOh, 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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