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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.

Billy Crystal

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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Inspirational Life Wise
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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Actors Character Directors
From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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Ghouls Saws Sids
I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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Fifth Grade Growing Height
I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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Goes Laughing On
The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh.
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Brother Inspiration Laughing
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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Book Improvising Play School
[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.
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Dad Stars Uncle
There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
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Big Clothes Difference Mostly
It is better to look good than to feel good.
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Comedian Feel Good Looks
I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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Country Free Life Sucker
At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
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Remember Same Things
You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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Muscles Stage World
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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Being Funny Sex Sexy Single
I’ve always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That’s why God gave me two hands. Humans love sex, we need sex, it’s how we connect, it reminds us we’re alive, it’s the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.
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Hands Sex Two
I think when I feel I’m at my best is when I’m on stage, and it’s my version of jazz because it’s just riffing or something.
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Comedy Jazz Thinking

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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