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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's not one special effect. But very rarely do these things fuse and come out right.
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Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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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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The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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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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I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
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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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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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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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