Mel Brooks Quotes
Dark Helmet after everyone on the bridge announces that their last name is 'Asshole.': I knew it, I'm surrounded by Assholes.
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing with the aftermath of the atomic bombs being dropped on them, and their ideas of how they're affected by it.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.
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The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city.
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When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.
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In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.
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In vain we call old notions fudge,And bend our conscience to our dealing;The Ten Commandments will not budge,And stealing will continue stealing.
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Dark Helmet after everyone on the bridge announces that their last name is 'Asshole.': I knew it, I'm surrounded by Assholes.
