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.
MEL BROOKSA lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
More Mel Brooks Quotes
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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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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I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.
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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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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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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
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