A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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 stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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We want to get people laughing; we don’t want to offend anybody.
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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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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