We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
MEL BROOKS
No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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