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.
MEL BROOKSHe who hesitates is poor.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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 stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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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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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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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 loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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