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.
BILLY CRYSTALThe Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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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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Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead.
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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.
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they’re raising them. You can’t push your way into areas where you shouldn’t be saying anything.
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I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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Don’t give up your power.
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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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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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