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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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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
Actor
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Brooklyn
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Melvin Brooks
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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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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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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.
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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
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When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.
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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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I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
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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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You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
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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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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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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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