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Immortality is a by-product of good work.

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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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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of Yah! Yah! Yah! And death says, All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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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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One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
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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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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.
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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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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.
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