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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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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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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 mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.
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My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'
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I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
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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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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin those guys mean a lot to me.
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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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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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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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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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