I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
BILLY CRYSTALEven 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 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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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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Change is such hard work.
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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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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 can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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You give up your dream, you give up.
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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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I’ve always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That’s why God gave me two hands. Humans love sex, we need sex, it’s how we connect, it reminds us we’re alive, it’s the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.
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I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. …
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When we had the girls, my daughter Jenny gave us like a Bible from my daughter of, “Don’t feed them this; don’t feed them that, if she says this, don’t say that,” It was crazy!
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