At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
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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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’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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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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At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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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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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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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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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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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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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Change is such hard work.
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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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