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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

You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they’re raising them. You can’t push your way into areas where you shouldn’t be saying anything.
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Hands Kids Play
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
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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Comedy Jazz Thinking
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
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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Being Funny Sex Sexy Single
I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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Feels Right Feet Humour
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
At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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Bases Nightly Something
The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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Ashes Friday Passion
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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Crazy Daughter Girl
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
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
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’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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Goes Laughing On
That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Comedy Jazz Soul

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