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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.
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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him! Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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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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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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