What’s so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you’re constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
BILLY CRYSTALWe 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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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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Change is such hard work.
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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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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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You give up your dream, you give up.
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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 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 some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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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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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 have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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