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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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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I’m going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn’t have something to say on a nightly basis.
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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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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 never stopped believing in us and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. I describe in the book [that] I don’t think I ever felt young again in that way.
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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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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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.
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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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Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, ‘This is the best I’m ever going to look, the best I’m ever going to feel, the best I’m ever going to do,’ and it ain’t that great?
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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