Mel Brooks Quotes

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

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• Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Poverty
  • Revolution
  • Mess

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Succeed
  • Russian

• When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Promise
  • Something

• When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Long
  • Play

• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Beautiful
  • Old
  • River

• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Quality
  • Care
  • Loved

• You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Stop
  • Yourself
  • Need

• I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Character
  • Reading
  • Moment

• I just want to sit in my room and write books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Want
  • Write
  • Room

• A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Way

• Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Fun
  • Movies
  • Cancer

• I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Lazy
  • Shoot

• I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Think
  • Way
  • Running

• Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, 'It passeth away;' for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• I work out every day, and I challenge myself. I've got a couple of friends who do CrossFit; I'm not a huge CrossFit guy, but I love the challenge.

  

  Donald Driver
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Guy

• I don't approach my movies with a target audience in mind. I try to make something that's true to the subject matter as much as possible, while still being entertaining and fun.

  

  Kelly Asbury
  • Mind
  • True
  • Fun

• There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Science
  • Words
  • Interesting

• We've got to stand up for ourselves. That is, draw some lines, make it clear that after awhile, we're not going to get bullied or pushed around, because I think there are some in China who want to push the United States around. They want to bully us.

  

  Max Baucus
  • Up

• Immortality is a by-product of good work.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Good
  • Work