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.
MEL BROOKSHumor is just another defense against the universe.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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