"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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Source : "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.thedailybeast.com. October 18, 2014.
Source : Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.134