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

Mel Brooks

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.
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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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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.
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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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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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As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin those guys mean a lot to me.
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Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.
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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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There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!
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I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
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My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.
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