By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
BILLY CRYSTALYou give up your dream, you give up.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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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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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 never stopped believing in us and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. I describe in the book [that] I don’t think I ever felt young again in that way.
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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I had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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What’s so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you’re constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
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Don’t give up your power.
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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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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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You give up your dream, you give up.
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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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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 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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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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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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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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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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