He who hesitates is poor.
MEL BROOKSI’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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Mad About You’ was very fun.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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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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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I like Chris Rock. He’s dangerous.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.
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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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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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I’ll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there’s some great comedy minds and performances.
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