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I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.

Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.

Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

Now thyself is more important than Know thyself.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

Comedy is protest. It's "I beg to differ," if you're fancy, or if you're Jewish, "Hey, listen to this!

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

The only weapon I've got is comedy

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

We rest our case on the production numbers.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

I knew it ... I'm surrounded by assholes!

They make us live in the crap, and now they're taking the crap away? No!

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.

Humor is just another defense against the
universe.

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

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

Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.

Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

'Mad About You' was very fun.

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

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

It's good to be the king.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart ... badoom, badoom, badoom.

I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.

Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.

I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

You want to be as smart as you can about being stupid.

My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'

It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.

Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity.

All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die.

I love spaghetti and sex, sometimes together. My dream of heaven is walking naked through fields of pasta fazool.

Could be worse ... could be raining."

- Igor

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth ... the critic

Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

We mock the things we are to be.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

Everything starts with writing.

The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.

I only direct in self-defense.

There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!

My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.

The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision
it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.

I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?

Nothing is free. You got to pay to be in society. First you start with homework.

Don't be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!