Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKSYou’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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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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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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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 love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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