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.
BILLY CRYSTAL[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.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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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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I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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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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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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I never stopped believing in us and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. I describe in the book [that] I don’t think I ever felt young again in that way.
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I had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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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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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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If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.
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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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