If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
MEL BROOKS
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 Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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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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I wish I was better looking.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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 was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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