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’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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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’m a baby. I sleep like a baby – I’m up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.
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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’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
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Change is such hard work.
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Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don’t think you can make your kids’ dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.
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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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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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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 don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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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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You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they’re raising them. You can’t push your way into areas where you shouldn’t be saying anything.
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