By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
BILLY CRYSTALI 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.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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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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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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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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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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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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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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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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Change is such hard work.
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