I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
BILLY CRYSTALBambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don’t think you can make your kids’ dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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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 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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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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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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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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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 used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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You give up your dream, you give up.
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