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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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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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I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.
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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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