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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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 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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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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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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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He who hesitates is poor.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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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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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
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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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Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.
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Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!
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