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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin those guys mean a lot to me.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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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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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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I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.
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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'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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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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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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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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