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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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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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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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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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You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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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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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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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me it's a sign of security.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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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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