From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
BILLY CRYSTALFrom the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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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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I’ve always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That’s why God gave me two hands. Humans love sex, we need sex, it’s how we connect, it reminds us we’re alive, it’s the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.
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If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.
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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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In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead.
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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 used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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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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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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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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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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