Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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