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.
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.
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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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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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You give up your dream, you give up.
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I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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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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Change is such hard work.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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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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