Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKSJudd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I’ve always felt okay in Berlin.
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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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I wish I was better looking.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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 far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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