Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
MEL BROOKSDom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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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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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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