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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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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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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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Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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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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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
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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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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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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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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!
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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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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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When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's not one special effect. But very rarely do these things fuse and come out right.
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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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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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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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