You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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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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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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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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