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

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved they don't want to be taught any lessons. [...] I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.
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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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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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Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!
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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
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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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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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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.
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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
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American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids.
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I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
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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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Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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