I’d like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
BILLY CRYSTALI love doing it [hosting the Oscars] because I love the danger of it and you have to come through and think on your feet.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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You give up your dream, you give up.
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Don’t give up your power.
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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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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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I always came away thinking “I’d like to see her more,” you know? And then when [Parental Guidance] was ready to be cast, we thought – Bette [Midler]. So we called her.
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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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There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
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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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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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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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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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