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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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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!
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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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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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Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.
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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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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 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 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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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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THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.
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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids.
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Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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