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.
BILLY CRYSTALI can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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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 Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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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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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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I’m married – I’ve caught my limit.
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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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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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At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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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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I don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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