What’s so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you’re constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
BILLY CRYSTALWhen you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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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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You give up your dream, you give up.
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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.
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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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[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.
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When 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.
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I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Don’t give up your power.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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