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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
Actor
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Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'
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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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I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
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Directing is a terrible, anxious process. It's all collaboration, and if you have a dream, it's diluted very quickly by the slightest ineptness in any of your collaborators. They're supposed to help you, but too often they help you into your grave.
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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of Yah! Yah! Yah! And death says, All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep.
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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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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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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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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 think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?
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