I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
BILLY CRYSTALI have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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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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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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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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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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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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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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You give up your dream, you give up.
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The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh.
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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 have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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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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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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