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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Brooklyn
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Melvin Brooks
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My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.
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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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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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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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If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible. If you're Jewish, you have a small smile on your face. Because you know the rest are wrong and you don't want to hurt their feelings.
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I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.
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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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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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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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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.
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