Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
BILLY CRYSTALThat’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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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 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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I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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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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Change is such hard work.
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Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.
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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
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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’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 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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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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