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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.

Billy Crystal

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
I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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Being Black Comedy Old
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
I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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Caught Limits Married
The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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Ashes Friday Passion
You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they’re raising them. You can’t push your way into areas where you shouldn’t be saying anything.
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Hands Kids Play
Change is such hard work.
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Change Inspirational Work
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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Baby Night Sleep
There’s only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.
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Kids Nice Thinking
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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Comedian Host Mentality Situations Thinking
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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Golden Problem World
Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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Acting Comedy Truthful
At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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Bases Nightly Something
When we had the girls, my daughter Jenny gave us like a Bible from my daughter of, “Don’t feed them this; don’t feed them that, if she says this, don’t say that,” It was crazy!
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Crazy Daughter Girl
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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Audience Front Growing Men Self Used
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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Criticism Government Long

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