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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little joys, and comedy is very, very important, it's a vital. We underestimate its value, but we should see more comedies. Comedy is life giving, it's invigorating. I really believe it.
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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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My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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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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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.
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Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.
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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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