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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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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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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of Yah! Yah! Yah! And death says, All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep.
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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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Well, you know, 'Spaceballs' is a weird combination, because it's a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it's crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, 'Star Wars', and 'Star Trek'.
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There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.
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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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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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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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If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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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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An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.
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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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