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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.

Billy Crystal

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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Actors Character Directors
I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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Caught Limits Married
Don’t give up your power.
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Don't Give Up Giving Up Power
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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Dream Kids Thinking
You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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Muscles Stage World
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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Frustrating Life Over Starting
Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Comedy Kids Scary
I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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Country Free Life Sucker
I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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Fifth Grade Growing Height
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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Comedian Host Mentality Situations Thinking
[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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Dad Stars Uncle
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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Remember Same Things
We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. …
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Audience Front Growing Men Self Used
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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Comedian Feet Thinking
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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Death Kids Love Own Play
That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Comedy Jazz Soul

Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.

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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.

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