Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSJudd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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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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