You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
MEL BROOKSImmortality is a by-product of good work.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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