When comedy is good, it’s jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It’s all melody to me.
BILLY CRYSTALI’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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Dad had a music store, and he’d often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.
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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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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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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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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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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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Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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You have to always remember they’re not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death – then hand them back.
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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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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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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