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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
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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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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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I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.
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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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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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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.
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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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Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
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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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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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Directing is a terrible, anxious process. It's all collaboration, and if you have a dream, it's diluted very quickly by the slightest ineptness in any of your collaborators. They're supposed to help you, but too often they help you into your grave.
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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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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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