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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's. Little, little joys, and comedy is very, very important, it's a vital. We underestimate its value, but we should see more comedies. Comedy is life giving, it's invigorating. I really believe it.
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I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.
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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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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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If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
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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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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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Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.
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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 wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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