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?
BILLY CRYSTALWhen 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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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When we had the girls, my daughter Jenny gave us like a Bible from my daughter of, “Don’t feed them this; don’t feed them that, if she says this, don’t say that,” It was crazy!
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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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 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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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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