Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
BILLY CRYSTALFrom the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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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 always came away thinking “I’d like to see her more,” you know? And then when [Parental Guidance] was ready to be cast, we thought – Bette [Midler]. So we called her.
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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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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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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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[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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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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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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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’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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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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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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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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