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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
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 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
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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Remember Same Things
I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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Feels Right Feet Humour
There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
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Big Clothes Difference Mostly
Don’t give up your power.
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Don't Give Up Giving Up Power
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
Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don’t think you can make your kids’ dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.
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Dream Kids Thinking
[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
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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Book Improvising Play School
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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Baby Night Sleep
Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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Acting Comedy Truthful
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
It is better to look good than to feel good.
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Comedian Feel Good Looks
I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach – Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did – he was a giant.
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Father Introducing Kids Producer Years

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