I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
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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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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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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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When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.
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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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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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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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At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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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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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’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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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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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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