I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.
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More Billy Crystal Quotes
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Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead.
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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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I’m a baby. I sleep like a baby – I’m up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.
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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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Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
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Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don’t think you can make your kids’ dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.
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I never stopped believing in us and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. I describe in the book [that] I don’t think I ever felt young again in that way.
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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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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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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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What’s so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you’re constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
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I had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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That’s why that show, no matter who hosts it, it really should be a fast-thinking comedian who is really quick on their feet that can handle situations that happen, or somebody with that kind of mentality that can capitalize on something.
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I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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