That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
BILLY CRYSTALI’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.
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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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 have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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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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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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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.
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The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh.
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You give up your dream, you give up.
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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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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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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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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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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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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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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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I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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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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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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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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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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