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I had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.

Billy Crystal

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.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Believe Book Father
I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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Goes Laughing On
[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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Dad Stars Uncle
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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Art Comedy Way
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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Guidance Now Then Thinking
I think when I feel I’m at my best is when I’m on stage, and it’s my version of jazz because it’s just riffing or something.
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Comedy Jazz Thinking
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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Actors Character Directors
I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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Feels Right Feet Humour
It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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Financial Funny Money
I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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Being Black Comedy Old
The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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Ashes Friday Passion
At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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Bases Nightly Something
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.
BILLY CRYSTAL

Dad Home Style
Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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Acting Comedy Truthful
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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Remember Same Things
Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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Country Funny Humorous

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