My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I’ve already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
BILLY CRYSTALFrom the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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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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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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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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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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You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they’re raising them. You can’t push your way into areas where you shouldn’t be saying anything.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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’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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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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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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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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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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I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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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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