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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More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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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’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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Change is such hard work.
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There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
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I had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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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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I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach – Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did – he was a giant.
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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