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?
BILLY CRYSTALI had really good hearing and when you’re scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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Change is such hard work.
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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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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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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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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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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 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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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar.
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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’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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Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead.
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That’s why that show, no matter who hosts it, it really should be a fast-thinking comedian who is really quick on their feet that can handle situations that happen, or somebody with that kind of mentality that can capitalize on something.
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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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