Mel Brooks Quotes

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

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• The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Clothes

• I'm easily entertained.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Easily
  • Entertained

• I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Women
  • Friends

• Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.

  

  E. L. James
  • Day
  • Yourself
  • Everyday

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Aging

• Women are sacred.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Women
  • Sacred
  • Women Are

• I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Movie
  • Think

• It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • You
  • Say
  • Wear

• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Action
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Days

• Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • God
  • Feel Good

• Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Door
  • Yourself
  • Snow

• America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • World
  • America

• When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • School
  • Black
  • Universities

• Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Artist
  • Obsessed

• Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Strong
  • Religion

• Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Writing
  • Best
  • Talent

• It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Bad
  • Trust
  • Language

• In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • Life
  • World
  • Power

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

  

  Mel Brooks
  • People