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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
Actor
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Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.
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I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
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When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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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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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible. If you're Jewish, you have a small smile on your face. Because you know the rest are wrong and you don't want to hurt their feelings.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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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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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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