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Mel Brooks Biography

Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. He created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970.

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There's a lot of things that I've done to stick into the box set. You never have it this good. I think people should bargain. They shouldn't just buy the set, it's a little expensive [anyway]. But they should say - I'll give them dialogue, I'm a good writer.

Bargain, Done, Expensive, Giving, People, Thinking

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.

Die, Direct, Hatred, Periphery, Rude, Toes

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Comedy, Enemy, Good, Inspirational, Taste

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Funny Inspirational, Inspiring, Saying, Taste, Truth

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

Fans, Gershwin, Guy, Irving, Mean, Songwriters

He who hesitates is poor.

Comedy, Hesitates, Poor

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!

Book, Hip Hop, Interested, See, Think, Thinking

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

Love, Real, Real Love, Spoof, Spoofing, Things

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

Dying, Simply, Thought, Writing

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.

Elderly, Everything, Involuntary, Keeps, Running, Song

It's good to be the king.

Good, King, Kings

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

Feelings, Laughing, People, Stop, Way

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Hope, Inspirational, Life, Play, Unrehearsed

When I was a little kid at home, I thought the whole world was Jewish. For years I thought Roosevelt was Jewish. I loved him. I thought of him as my father. I'm always stunned when I find out that people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?

Father, Home, Kids, Like, Roosevelt, Stunned

Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.

Merchandising, Money, Movie, Real, Yogurt

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.

Actors, Situation, Trying, Writing

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

Behinds, Believe, Business, Front, Progress

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

Abounds, Laughing, Laughter, Literally, Look, Looks

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

Color, Colorful, Inspirational, Lively, Quiet, Rainbow

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Burn, Mission, Missions, Torch, Torches

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