You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they’re raising them. You can’t push your way into areas where you shouldn’t be saying anything.
BILLY CRYSTALIn 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.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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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!
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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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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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I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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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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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 love doing it [hosting the Oscars] because I love the danger of it and you have to come through and think on your feet.
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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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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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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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You give up your dream, you give up.
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There’s only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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