Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
MEL BROOKSAs far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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