I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
BILLY CRYSTALThat’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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Change is such hard work.
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I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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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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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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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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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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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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Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don’t think you can make your kids’ dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.
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I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it’s really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it’s great.
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