That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
BILLY CRYSTALNobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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 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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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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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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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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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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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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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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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 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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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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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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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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