Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
BILLY CRYSTALI never stopped believing in us and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. I describe in the book [that] I don’t think I ever felt young again in that way.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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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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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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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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I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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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 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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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 never stopped believing in us and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. I describe in the book [that] I don’t think I ever felt young again in that way.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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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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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
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