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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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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.
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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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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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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 at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.
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I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him! Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.
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