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.
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.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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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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I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I’d always go off book and start improvising.
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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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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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I love doing it [hosting the Oscars] because I love the danger of it and you have to come through and think on your feet.
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I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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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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Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead.
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You give up your dream, you give up.
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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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My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I’ve already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
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There’s only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.
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