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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

I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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Goes Laughing On
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
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
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
It is better to look good than to feel good.
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Comedian Feel Good Looks
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I’d always go off book and start improvising.
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Book Improvising Play School
I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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Fifth Grade Growing Height
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
Change is such hard work.
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Change Inspirational Work
From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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Ghouls Saws Sids
Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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Acting Comedy Truthful
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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Baby Night Sleep
Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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Country Funny Humorous
That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Comedy Jazz Soul
Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Comedy Kids Scary
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

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

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