I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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More Billy Crystal Quotes
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At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, ‘This is the best I’m ever going to look, the best I’m ever going to feel, the best I’m ever going to do,’ and it ain’t that great?
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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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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 had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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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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A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it’s really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it’s great.
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Don’t give up your power.
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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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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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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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In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
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