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Dad had a music store, and he’d often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

Billy Crystal

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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Book Improvising Play School
I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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Feels Right Feet Humour
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
You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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Muscles Stage World
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
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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Feels Looks Reach
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
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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Art Comedy Way
I had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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Hearing Noise Scared
Dad had a music store, and he’d often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.
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Dad Home Style
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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Being Funny Sex Sexy Single
I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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Fifth Grade Growing Height
Change is such hard work.
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Change Inspirational Work
Don’t give up your power.
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Don't Give Up Giving Up Power
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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Believe Book Father
It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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Financial Funny Money

Dad had a music store, and he’d often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

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Dad had a music store, and he’d often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

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