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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 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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Art Comedy Way
Change is such hard work.
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Change Inspirational Work
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
Dad had a music store, and he’d often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.
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Dad Home Style
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
At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
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Remember Same Things
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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Golden Problem World
That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Comedy Jazz Soul
It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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Financial Funny Money
Don’t give up your power.
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Don't Give Up Giving Up Power
I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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Caught Limits Married
Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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Acting Comedy Truthful
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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Football Games School
[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
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 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

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

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