Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I’d always go off book and start improvising.
BILLY CRYSTALI had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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You have to always remember they’re not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death – then hand them back.
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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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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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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’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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Dad had a music store, and he’d often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.
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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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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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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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I had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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