We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
MEL BROOKSEvery human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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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’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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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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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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