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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'
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When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's not one special effect. But very rarely do these things fuse and come out right.
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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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When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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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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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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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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