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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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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible. If you're Jewish, you have a small smile on your face. Because you know the rest are wrong and you don't want to hurt their feelings.
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I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.
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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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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.
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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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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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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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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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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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I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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