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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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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I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, ‘This is the best I’m ever going to look, the best I’m ever going to feel, the best I’m ever going to do,’ and it ain’t that great?
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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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You have to always remember they’re not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death – then hand them back.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.
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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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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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Don’t give up your power.
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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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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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