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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Billy Crystal

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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Audience Front Growing Men Self Used
At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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Bases Nightly Something
Change is such hard work.
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Change Inspirational Work
That’s why that show, no matter who hosts it, it really should be a fast-thinking comedian who is really quick on their feet that can handle situations that happen, or somebody with that kind of mentality that can capitalize on something.
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Comedian Host Mentality Situations Thinking
I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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Fifth Grade Growing Height
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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Couple Laughing People
Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead.
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Clothes Differences Looks
In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
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Football Games School
I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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Feels Right Feet Humour
Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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Acting Comedy Truthful
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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Frustrating Life Over Starting
I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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Goes Laughing On
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
I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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Different Happened Something
I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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Being Black Comedy Old
There’s only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.
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Kids Nice Thinking

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