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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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 don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'
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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 love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
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I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?
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Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'
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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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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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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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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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If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.
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