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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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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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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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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I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved they don't want to be taught any lessons. [...] I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.
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I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.
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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.
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I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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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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Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.
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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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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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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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