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" Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. "
Mel Brooks
Based
Fear
Everything
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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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" 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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" I only direct in self-defense. "
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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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" Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you. "
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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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" I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front. "
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" We rest our case on the production numbers. "
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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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" Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director. "
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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, 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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" If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. "
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Country
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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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Like
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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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Women
Wife
Short
" 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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Movies
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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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Always
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" I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films. "
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Loved
Horror
Horror Films
" You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. "
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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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" If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win. "
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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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