It is better to look good than to feel good.
BILLY CRYSTALThe 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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We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. …
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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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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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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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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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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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I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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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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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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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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[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.
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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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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I’d always go off book and start improvising.
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