[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.
BILLY CRYSTALWomen need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I’ve already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
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We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. …
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I love doing it [hosting the Oscars] because I love the danger of it and you have to come through and think on your feet.
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When comedy is good, it’s jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It’s all melody to me.
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You give up your dream, you give up.
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I’d always go off book and start improvising.
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I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach – Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did – he was a giant.
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Change is such hard work.
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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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