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Immortality is a by-product of good work.

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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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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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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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 love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.
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I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.
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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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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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I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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