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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

Mel Brooks

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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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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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.
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Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.
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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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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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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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I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.
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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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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.
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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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