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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 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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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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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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!
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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 don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little joys, and comedy is very, very important, it's a vital. We underestimate its value, but we should see more comedies. Comedy is life giving, it's invigorating. I really believe it.
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.
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