I’m comfortable being old… being black… being Jewish.
BILLY CRYSTALIt is better to look good than to feel good.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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 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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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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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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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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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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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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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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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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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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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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