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I had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.

Billy Crystal

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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Comedian Host Mentality Situations Thinking
[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.
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Dad Stars Uncle
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
At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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Bases Nightly Something
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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Fun Grandchildren Grandparent
I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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Baseball Country
I had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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Hearing Noise Scared
Change is such hard work.
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Change Inspirational Work
I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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Different Happened Something
That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Comedy Jazz Soul
You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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Muscles Stage World
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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Death Kids Love Own Play
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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Believe Book Father
I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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Happiest Heaven Life Thinking
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
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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