You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
MEL BROOKSAll 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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 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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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 rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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