At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
BILLY CRYSTALI 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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When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.
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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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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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Change is such hard work.
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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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I always came away thinking “I’d like to see her more,” you know? And then when [Parental Guidance] was ready to be cast, we thought – Bette [Midler]. So we called her.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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