The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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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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At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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Don’t give up your power.
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.
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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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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, ‘This is the best I’m ever going to look, the best I’m ever going to feel, the best I’m ever going to do,’ and it ain’t that great?
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There’s only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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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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I had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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