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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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More quotes by Mel Brooks
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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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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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'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.
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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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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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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 brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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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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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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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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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.
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Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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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!'
Mel Brooks
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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