We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
MEL BROOKSThe 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.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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I wish I was better looking.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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