A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
MEL BROOKSIf Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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