Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
BILLY CRYSTALYou have to always remember they’re not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death – then hand them back.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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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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Don’t give up your power.
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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 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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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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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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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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When comedy is good, it’s jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It’s all melody to me.
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Change is such hard work.
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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’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, ‘This is the best I’m ever going to look, the best I’m ever going to feel, the best I’m ever going to do,’ and it ain’t that great?
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