You have to always remember they’re not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death – then hand them back.
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.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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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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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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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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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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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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I had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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I’ve always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That’s why God gave me two hands. Humans love sex, we need sex, it’s how we connect, it reminds us we’re alive, it’s the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.
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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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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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