I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.
BILLY CRYSTALI 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.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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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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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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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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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 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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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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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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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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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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My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I’ve already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
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