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I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

Billy Crystal

My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I’ve already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
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Fun Grandchildren Grandparent
I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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Being Black Comedy Old
You have to always remember they’re not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death – then hand them back.
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Death Kids Love Own Play
You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they’re raising them. You can’t push your way into areas where you shouldn’t be saying anything.
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Hands Kids Play
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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Baby Night Sleep
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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Remember Same Things
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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Art Comedy Way
I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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Country Free Life Sucker
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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Actors Character Directors
Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don’t think you can make your kids’ dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.
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Dream Kids Thinking
I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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Happiest Heaven Life Thinking
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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Golden Problem World
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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Brother Inspiration Laughing
Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Comedy Kids Scary
I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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Feels Right Feet Humour
The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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Ashes Friday Passion

I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

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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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