What’s so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you’re constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
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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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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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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Dad had a music store, and he’d often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.
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[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.
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There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
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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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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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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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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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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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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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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 can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.
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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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