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 CRYSTALThat’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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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Change is such hard work.
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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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I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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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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Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead.
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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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I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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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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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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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’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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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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