My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
MEL BROOKSEverything 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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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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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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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