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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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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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One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!
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Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.
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I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.
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Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.
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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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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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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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