We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
MEL BROOKSBad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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I wish I was better looking.
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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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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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