Mo Brooks Quotes

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

You don't learn to fly if you're not prepared to crash

We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.

Time heals everything. Time corrects everything. Time is the solution to every problem, I believe. A lot of things can happen with time. All that has to be there is the intention.

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.

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

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

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.'

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

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

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

We mock the things we are to be.

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

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

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. The job is to make people laugh. I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

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

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

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.

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

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

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

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

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

Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

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.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

Who would you be but who you are?

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

In the experience is the emotion. In the emotion is the gift.

When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

The highest distinction is service to others.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

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

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.