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.
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.
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That’s why that show, no matter who hosts it, it really should be a fast-thinking comedian who is really quick on their feet that can handle situations that happen, or somebody with that kind of mentality that can capitalize on something.
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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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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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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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You give up your dream, you give up.
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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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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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There’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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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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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 don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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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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