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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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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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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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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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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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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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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.
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American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids.
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There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.
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I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.
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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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