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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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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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