We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
MEL BROOKSI don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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The 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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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