I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKSHe who hesitates is poor.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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