I wish I was better looking.
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 was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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As 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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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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