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At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.

Billy Crystal

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
When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.
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Life Realizing Rest Want Your
I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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Country Free Life Sucker
You give up your dream, you give up.
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Dream Giving Vision
I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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Caught Limits Married
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
I’m a baby. I sleep like a baby – I’m up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.
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Baby Night Sleep
Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Comedy Kids Scary
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
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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Brother Inspiration Laughing
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I’d always go off book and start improvising.
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Book Improvising Play School
My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I’ve already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
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Fun Grandchildren Grandparent
That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Comedy Jazz Soul
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
It is better to look good than to feel good.
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Comedian Feel Good Looks
[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

At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.

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