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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!
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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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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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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 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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I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
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I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.
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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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One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
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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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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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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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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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