As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
BILLY CRYSTALWell, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
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Change is such hard work.
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Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, ‘This is the best I’m ever going to look, the best I’m ever going to feel, the best I’m ever going to do,’ and it ain’t that great?
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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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When I’ve gotten criticism, it’s that it’s too long, too soft, didn’t hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What’s he doing hitting the government?
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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Don’t give up your power.
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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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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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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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If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.
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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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