Dad had a music store, and he’d often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.
BILLY CRYSTALI’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it’s really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it’s great.
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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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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
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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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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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I’ve always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That’s why God gave me two hands. Humans love sex, we need sex, it’s how we connect, it reminds us we’re alive, it’s the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.
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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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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh.
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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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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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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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Change is such hard work.
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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