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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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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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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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I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.
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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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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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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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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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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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Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'
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No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.
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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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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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