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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.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.
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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
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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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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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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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If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?
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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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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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Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.
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I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.
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