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. …
BILLY CRYSTALI have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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When I’ve gotten criticism, it’s that it’s too long, too soft, didn’t hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What’s he doing hitting the government?
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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 can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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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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Don’t give up your power.
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Dad had a music store, and he’d often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.
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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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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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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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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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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 never stopped believing in us and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. I describe in the book [that] I don’t think I ever felt young again in that way.
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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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