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.
BILLY CRYSTALBambi, to a kid, was scary.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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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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Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
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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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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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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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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.
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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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Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, ‘This is the best I’m ever going to look, the best I’m ever going to feel, the best I’m ever going to do,’ and it ain’t that great?
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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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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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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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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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