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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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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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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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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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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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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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 don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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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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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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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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