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I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

Billy Crystal

I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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Country Free Life Sucker
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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Brother Inspiration Laughing
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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Comedian Feet 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
What’s so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you’re constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
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Frustrating Life Over Starting
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 used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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Baseball Country
That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Comedy Jazz Soul
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
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
I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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Caught Limits Married
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
You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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Muscles Stage World
There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
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Big Clothes Difference Mostly
Don’t give up your power.
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Don't Give Up Giving Up Power
Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Comedy Kids Scary

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 have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

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