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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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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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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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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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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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Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me it's a sign of security.
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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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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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Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
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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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When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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