You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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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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I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach – Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did – he was a giant.
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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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Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, ‘This is the best I’m ever going to look, the best I’m ever going to feel, the best I’m ever going to do,’ and it ain’t that great?
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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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When comedy is good, it’s jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It’s all melody to me.
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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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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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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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Change is such hard work.
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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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