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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

I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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Goes Laughing On
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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Actors Character Directors
That’s why that show, no matter who hosts it, it really should be a fast-thinking comedian who is really quick on their feet that can handle situations that happen, or somebody with that kind of mentality that can capitalize on something.
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Comedian Host Mentality Situations Thinking
I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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Feels Right Feet Humour
You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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Muscles Stage World
That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Comedy Jazz Soul
There’s only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.
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Kids Nice Thinking
I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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Different Happened Something
[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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Dad Stars Uncle
Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Comedy Kids Scary
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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Brother Inspiration Laughing
I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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Happiest Heaven Life Thinking
I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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Being Black Comedy Old
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
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.
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Football Games School
You give up your dream, you give up.
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Dream Giving Vision

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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