If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSNo, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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