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!
BILLY CRYSTALWhen I’ve gotten criticism, it’s that it’s too long, too soft, didn’t hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What’s he doing hitting the government?
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.
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You give up your dream, you give up.
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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead.
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[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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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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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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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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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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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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I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach – Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did – he was a giant.
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