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.
BILLY CRYSTALI’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.
BILLY CRYSTALWe 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. …
BILLY CRYSTALThe Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
BILLY CRYSTALIf 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.
BILLY CRYSTALWhen comedy is good, it’s jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It’s all melody to me.
BILLY CRYSTALChange is such hard work.
BILLY CRYSTALYou have to always remember they’re not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death – then hand them back.
BILLY CRYSTALI’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
BILLY CRYSTALWhen 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!
BILLY CRYSTALBy the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
BILLY CRYSTALMy grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I’ve already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
BILLY CRYSTALEven when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I’d always go off book and start improvising.
BILLY CRYSTALI had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
BILLY CRYSTALThat’s why that show, no matter who hosts it, it really should be a fast-thinking comedian who is really quick on their feet that can handle situations that happen, or somebody with that kind of mentality that can capitalize on something.
BILLY CRYSTALThere’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
BILLY CRYSTALIt’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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