A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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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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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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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