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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 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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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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Directing is a terrible, anxious process. It's all collaboration, and if you have a dream, it's diluted very quickly by the slightest ineptness in any of your collaborators. They're supposed to help you, but too often they help you into your grave.
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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.
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
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