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.
BILLY CRYSTALYou 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.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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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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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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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’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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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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I think when I feel I’m at my best is when I’m on stage, and it’s my version of jazz because it’s just riffing or something.
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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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I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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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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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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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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