Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKSWe’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 don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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