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Mel Brooks

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It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.


— Mel Brooks


#got #talent #you

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.


— Mel Brooks


#director #good #pretty #pretty good #producer

'Mad About You' was very fun.


— Mel Brooks


#fun #mad #very #you

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.


— Mel Brooks


#go #job #most #out #people

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.


— Mel Brooks


#songs #themselves #write

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.


— Mel Brooks


#i #near #normal #oh #rather

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.


— Mel Brooks


#authorities #back #books #brilliance #brooks

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.


— Mel Brooks


#brooks #film #i #i think #me

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.


— Mel Brooks


#comedy #cut #die #fall #finger

We rest our case on the production numbers.


— Mel Brooks


#numbers #our #production #rest






About Mel Brooks

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Did you know about Mel Brooks?

He also began acting in summer stock in Red Bank New Jersey and did some radio work. Around this time he changed his professional name to "Mel Brooks" after being confused with the well-known Borscht Belt trumpet player Max Kaminsky. Brooks himself has a cameo as an alcoholic ex-serf who "yearns for the regular beatings of yesteryear.

His most well known films include The Producers Blazing Saddles Young Frankenstein Silent Movie High Anxiety and Spaceballs. Three of his films ranked in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy films of all-time all of which ranked in the top 20 of the list: Blazing Saddles at number 6 The Producers at number 11 and Young Frankenstein at number 13. He is to receive the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013.

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