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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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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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Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids.
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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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If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.
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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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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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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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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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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.
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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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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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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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Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!
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