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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. …

Billy Crystal

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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Ghouls Saws Sids
I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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Country Free Life Sucker
At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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Bases Nightly Something
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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Comedy Jazz Thinking
You give up your dream, you give up.
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Dream Giving Vision
Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Comedy Kids Scary
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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Being Funny Sex Sexy Single
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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Remember Same Things
It is better to look good than to feel good.
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Comedian Feel Good Looks
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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Actors Character Directors
Don’t give up your power.
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Don't Give Up Giving Up Power
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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Kids Nice Thinking
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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Football Games School
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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Comedian Feet Thinking
That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Comedy Jazz Soul
I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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Happiest Heaven Life Thinking

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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