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.
BILLY CRYSTALI think when I feel I’m at my best is when I’m on stage, and it’s my version of jazz because it’s just riffing or something.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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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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I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it’s really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it’s great.
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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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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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Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead.
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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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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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Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I’d always go off book and start improvising.
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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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If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.
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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’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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