It’s talent. Either you got it or you ain’t.
MEL BROOKSWe’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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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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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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There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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