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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

Mel Brooks

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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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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Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
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I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.
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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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 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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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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My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.
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