Billy Crystal Quotes
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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As young people, you want to see people who in some way look like you to some degree, because it makes it a little easier for you to aspire to take on the qualities of those people.
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I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.
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Particularly over the last few decades, technological innovation has offered opportunities to bring people and nations together - but it has also created significant new challenges to law enforcement.
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If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.
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The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.
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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.
