Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSHe who hesitates is poor.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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 only direct in self-defense.
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Oh, I’m not a true genius. I’m a near genius. I would say I’m a short genius. I’d rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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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’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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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