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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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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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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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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.
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Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.
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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 we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.
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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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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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