A Quote by Billy Crystal

'Parental Guidance' combines comedy and pathos in the best way.

Billy Crystal

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Billy Crystal
American - Comedian
Born: March 14, 1947

Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don't mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.

Benjamin Spock

Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

Becky Stark

Most of my films - if you look at the tone, apart from 'Shadows,' which is straight-up comedy - the tone is a mix between comedy and pathos, and I really love that.

Taika Waititi

The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you do in a straight scene. It's much harder.

Jerry Lewis

It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.

Billy Crystal

I just always play these really extreme characters - they've all come with parental guidance stickers on them.

Zawe Ashton

Without parental guidance telling you there's another way to live it can be tough but my kids have an advantage over my life. I can tell them I know what it's like and that they don't ever want to go to the places I've been, whereas when I grew up, it was so accepted and normal that if you didn't do it, you were considered weird.

Christian Hosoi

So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.

Dallas Willard

Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.

Deeyah Khan

[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.

William James

We play lots of roles in our lives, but I got to do that in one movie [Parental Guidance], and ride the feelings, and it was a good challenge for me.

Marisa Tomei

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

Bruce McGill

Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance.