He who hesitates is poor.
MEL BROOKSHe who hesitates is poor.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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 was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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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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