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.
BILLY CRYSTALThe Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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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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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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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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Don’t give up your power.
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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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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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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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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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Change is such hard work.
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You have to always remember they’re not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death – then hand them back.
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You give up your dream, you give up.
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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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