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.
BILLY CRYSTALNothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
More Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.
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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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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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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do.
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Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I’d always go off book and start improvising.
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What’s so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you’re constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.
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We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. …
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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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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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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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Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck’s puff pastries.
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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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I’ve always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That’s why God gave me two hands. Humans love sex, we need sex, it’s how we connect, it reminds us we’re alive, it’s the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.
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