You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKSTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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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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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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