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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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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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When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's not one special effect. But very rarely do these things fuse and come out right.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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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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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
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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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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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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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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
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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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Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.
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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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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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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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