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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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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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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
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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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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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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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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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I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.
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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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My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
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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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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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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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The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.
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