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

Billy Crystal

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 can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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Feels Right Feet Humour
Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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Country Funny Humorous
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
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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Book Improvising Play School
I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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Being Black Comedy Old
Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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Acting Comedy Truthful
It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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Financial Funny Money
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
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
It is better to look good than to feel good.
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Comedian Feel Good Looks
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
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
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.
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Comedian Feet Thinking
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

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