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.
BILLY CRYSTALWhat’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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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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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Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, ‘This is the best I’m ever going to look, the best I’m ever going to feel, the best I’m ever going to do,’ and it ain’t that great?
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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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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.
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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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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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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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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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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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I’ve always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That’s why God gave me two hands. Humans love sex, we need sex, it’s how we connect, it reminds us we’re alive, it’s the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.
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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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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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