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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

Billy Crystal

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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Criticism Government Long
The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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Ashes Friday Passion
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
The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh.
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Brother Inspiration Laughing
[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
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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Guidance Now Then Thinking
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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Comedian Feet Thinking
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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Eyes History Open Related Started
You give up your dream, you give up.
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Dream Giving Vision
I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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Goes Laughing On
There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
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Big Clothes Difference Mostly
If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.
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Dad Father Respect
Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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News Puck Puff
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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Dream Kids Thinking
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 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

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

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