I always came away thinking “I’d like to see her more,” you know? And then when [Parental Guidance] was ready to be cast, we thought – Bette [Midler]. So we called her.
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More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead.
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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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Dad had a music store, and he’d often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.
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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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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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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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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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I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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Change is such hard work.
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My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I’ve already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with 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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