I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
BILLY CRYSTALThat’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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I always came away thinking “I’d like to see her more,” you know? And then when [Parental Guidance] was ready to be cast, we thought – Bette [Midler]. So we called her.
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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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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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When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.
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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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I think when I feel I’m at my best is when I’m on stage, and it’s my version of jazz because it’s just riffing or something.
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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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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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You give up your dream, you give up.
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I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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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’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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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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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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Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.
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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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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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Change is such hard work.
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I’ve always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That’s why God gave me two hands. Humans love sex, we need sex, it’s how we connect, it reminds us we’re alive, it’s the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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