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.
BILLY CRYSTALWell, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
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I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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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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You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they’re raising them. You can’t push your way into areas where you shouldn’t be saying anything.
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Change is such hard work.
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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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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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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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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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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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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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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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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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