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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.
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I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him! Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.
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I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
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There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!
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I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
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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!
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My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'
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I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.
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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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