By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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More Billy Crystal Quotes
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In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
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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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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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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’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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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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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 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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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 used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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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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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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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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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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