By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
BILLY CRYSTALAt 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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You have to always remember they’re not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death – then hand them back.
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I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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I’m a baby. I sleep like a baby – I’m up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.
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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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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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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 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?
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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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