Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise. . . , or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.
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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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If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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When we did 'Young Frankenstein,' we knew we could get the college crowd. They loved the Mary Shelley novel. If you didn't get the references, you couldn't enjoy my movies.
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I think people should buy 20 of them. Buy 20 and save a lot of them for Christmas presents. Who knows how many of these they make They might be gone.
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