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Mel Brooks Quotes

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: June 28, 1926

Topics

People Want Get Laughing Offend

I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.

Mistake Me Thought Doing Childish

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

Success Men Effort Goal Get Cult

I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.

Work Retirement Want More Get Just

I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions.

Light World American Feel Comedy

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

Robert Sheckley

Luck Writing Story Think Short

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

Robert J. Shiller

Decision People Thought Feel You

My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.

Love Women Strong You Know Old

In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.

Justice Peace Name Cannot Impunity

When you do what I've done - the normal Hollywood way, where you let people do things for you - and then you make certain choices where you have to learn to do it for yourself, which is how you should do it, it caused me to get way behind in stuff. I wouldn't change a thing because it's been a very important learning thing.

Stephen Baldwin

Change Learning Yourself People Me

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

Steven Zaillian

People Long Who Those Writes

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.

Thinking Look Without Cook Himself

Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.

Story America Enough Animals Danger

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