Mel Brooks Quotes

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

Mel Brooks

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• Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Information

• You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Different
  • Long
  • Day

• The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Control

• You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Up
  • Step
  • Boss

• I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Different
  • Real
  • Together

• Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Great
  • Pride

• The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • America
  • Today
  • Tradition

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Enjoy
  • Doing
  • Idea

• If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Single
  • Best
  • Player

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Player
  • Environment
  • Consequences

• On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

  

  Hans Blix
  • War
  • You
  • Global Warming

• Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Car
  • Feel

• ...Try not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as the majority of my readers, and the education they have received about it from the government's public school system is nothing more than a septic tank full of warmed-over self-serving statist lies and leftist propaganda.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • School
  • Education
  • Lies

• Enough about me. What do you think about me?

  

  Bette Midler
  • Thinking
  • Enough

• I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Acknowledge
  • Chances
  • Senator

• I'm not a model, I'm an artist. In one of my videos, I'm doing this shot of me with no make-up on where I've just woken up, and I don't think a lot of people would be comfortable enough to do that. But that's the way I look. This is who I am. Let's enjoy it. Let's just live life to the full while we're all here.

  

  Jessie J
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Winter

• If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

  

  Mel Brooks