I only direct in self-defense.
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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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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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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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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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