"You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide."

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Source : "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.thedailybeast.com. October 18, 2014.

Mel Brooks

#Suicide Quotes #Feet Quotes #Four Quotes

“A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the reader is the player so the engagement with the material is always more fundamental and dynamic. Reading comics is a much less passive activity than consuming CDs and DVDs.”
“The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart”
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
“Success has killed more men than bullets.”
“Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.”
“Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health.”
“Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.”

Source : Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.134
“Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.”

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