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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More Billy Crystal Quotes
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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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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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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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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Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.
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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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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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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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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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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’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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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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I had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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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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