We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
MEL BROOKSI know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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I wish I was better looking.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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 got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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