In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
BILLY CRYSTALThe Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it’s really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it’s great.
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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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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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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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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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Change is such hard work.
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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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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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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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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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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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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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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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