By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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.
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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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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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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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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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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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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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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.
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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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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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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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You give up your dream, you give up.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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