My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I’ve already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
BILLY CRYSTALWhoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead.
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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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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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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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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 love doing it [hosting the Oscars] because I love the danger of it and you have to come through and think on your feet.
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I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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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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I 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.
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Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Change is such hard work.
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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.
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