We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
MEL BROOKSIf you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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I wish I was better looking.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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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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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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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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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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