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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin those guys mean a lot to me.
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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
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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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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little joys, and comedy is very, very important, it's a vital. We underestimate its value, but we should see more comedies. Comedy is life giving, it's invigorating. I really believe it.
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My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.
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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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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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