In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
BILLY CRYSTALIt is better to look good than to feel good.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It’s money. I remember it from when I was single
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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’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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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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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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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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Change is such hard work.
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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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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 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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That’s why that show, no matter who hosts it, it really should be a fast-thinking comedian who is really quick on their feet that can handle situations that happen, or somebody with that kind of mentality that can capitalize on something.
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