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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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He who hesitates is poor.
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When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's not one special effect. But very rarely do these things fuse and come out right.
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Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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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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Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.
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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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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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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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