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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.
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Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.
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My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of Yah! Yah! Yah! And death says, All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep.
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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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 only direct in self-defense.
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Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.
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My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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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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When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.
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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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If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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