It is better to look good than to feel good.
BILLY CRYSTALWomen need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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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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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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[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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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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Change is such hard work.
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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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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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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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At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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I love doing it [hosting the Oscars] because I love the danger of it and you have to come through and think on your feet.
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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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