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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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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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There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!
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