Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
BILLY CRYSTALI had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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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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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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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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I had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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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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You give up your dream, you give up.
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Don’t give up your power.
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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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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 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 was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach – Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did – he was a giant.
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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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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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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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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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