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.
BILLY CRYSTALI’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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When 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.
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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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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’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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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach – Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did – he was a giant.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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We 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. …
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I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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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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I’m a sucker for a free tuxedo.
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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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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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