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.
BILLY CRYSTALI don’t like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
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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In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
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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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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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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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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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Change is such hard work.
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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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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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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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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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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’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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You give up your dream, you give up.
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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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