Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
BILLY CRYSTAL[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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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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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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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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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 can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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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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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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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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I 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.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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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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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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