I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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