If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSEvery human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Everything 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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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