Mel Brooks Quotes

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.

Mel Brooks

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VisionSupportIdeasWritingYou

I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.

Andy Serkis

ChangeGoodEyesSocietyThought

I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy.

Slick Rick

CrazyPersonNeverAnythingDid

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Tony Benn

LifeMomentPhotographyMomentsMost

I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I went to Sewage School and hung out with kids learning to make sewage soup and how to clean sewage. And it was great - really good fun.

Rose George

LearningGoodGreatSchoolFunSoup

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Lucille Ball

OpportunityAbilityWithoutLittle

I trained to sing well, but now I sing poorly for a living. That was money well spent.

Colleen Ballinger

MoneyNowLivingWellSingPoorly

All my tattoos, they've been thought out, thought over, been a work in progress for at least a year before I've got them. So I'm not walking into a tattoo shop, picking tattoos off a wall. It's something that means something to me. It's something that I believe in.

Colin Kaepernick

WorkProgressMeBelieveThought

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

Arlen Specter

DemocracyVotingOurReturnsYielded

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

William Strunk, Jr.

WordsDrawingReasonSameLines

Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the most to him: his wife and son. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces - no communication, adultery, divorce? You can't do it, not if you're being true and honest with yourself.

Julian Lennon

FamilyLoveCommunicationSonPeace

In 'Happier at Home,' I write a lot about my struggle to create an unhurried atmosphere at home.

Gretchen Rubin

HomeStruggleCreateWriteHappier

There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket.

Howie Mandel

YouSkillRockCashMoveAnother

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