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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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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're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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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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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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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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