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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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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.
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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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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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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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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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