[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.
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More Billy Crystal Quotes
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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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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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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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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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.
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My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I’ve already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
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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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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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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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If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.
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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.
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