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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

Mel Brooks

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
Actor
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Brooklyn
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The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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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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I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.
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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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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me it's a sign of security.
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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