Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
BILLY CRYSTALThere’s only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.
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What’s so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you’re constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
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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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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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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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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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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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Change is such hard work.
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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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You give up your dream, you give up.
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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 I’ve gotten criticism, it’s that it’s too long, too soft, didn’t hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What’s he doing hitting the government?
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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