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.
BILLY CRYSTALI think when I feel I’m at my best is when I’m on stage, and it’s my version of jazz because it’s just riffing or something.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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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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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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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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When I’ve gotten criticism, it’s that it’s too long, too soft, didn’t hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What’s he doing hitting the government?
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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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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 don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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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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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 had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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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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