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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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When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
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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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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'
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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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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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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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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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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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No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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