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.
BILLY CRYSTALThere’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.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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You have to always remember they’re not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death – then hand them back.
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Don’t give up your power.
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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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Change is such hard work.
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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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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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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 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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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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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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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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