Nobody is more truthful when he’s acting than De Niro.
BILLY CRYSTALBy the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it’s really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it’s great.
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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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There’s only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.
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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 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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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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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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I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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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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Don’t give up your power.
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