I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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