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Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
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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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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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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've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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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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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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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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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
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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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