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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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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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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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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 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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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 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 was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him! Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.
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