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.
MEL BROOKSTragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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’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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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 wish I was better looking.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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