My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I’ve already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
BILLY CRYSTALBambi, to a kid, was scary.
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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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There’s only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.
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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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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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Change is such hard work.
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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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When we had the girls, my daughter Jenny gave us like a Bible from my daughter of, “Don’t feed them this; don’t feed them that, if she says this, don’t say that,” It was crazy!
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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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That’s why that show, no matter who hosts it, it really should be a fast-thinking comedian who is really quick on their feet that can handle situations that happen, or somebody with that kind of mentality that can capitalize on something.
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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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When I’ve gotten criticism, it’s that it’s too long, too soft, didn’t hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What’s he doing hitting the government?
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