Immortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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’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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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 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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He who hesitates is poor.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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