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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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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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Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.
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My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.
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I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.
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I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.
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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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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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