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At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

Billy Crystal

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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Art Comedy Way
That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Comedy Jazz Soul
By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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Inspirational Life Wise
I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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Caught Limits Married
Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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Acting Comedy Truthful
I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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Goes Laughing On
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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Comedy Jazz Thinking
At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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Bases Nightly Something
I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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Being Black Comedy Old
My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I’ve already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
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Fun Grandchildren Grandparent
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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Comedian Feet Thinking
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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Life Realizing Rest Want Your
I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.
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Eyes History Open Related Started
I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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Country Free Life Sucker
Don’t give up your power.
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Don't Give Up Giving Up Power
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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Guidance Now Then Thinking

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

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