If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKSJudd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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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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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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Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.
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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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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