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.
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.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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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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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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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach – Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did – he was a giant.
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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 had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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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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We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. …
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