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Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
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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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My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.
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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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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'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
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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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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
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There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!
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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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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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Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
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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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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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