Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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I watch old 'Truth or Consequences' on Hulu. 'Concentration.' And 'The Match Game' with Gene Rayburn.
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That's the thing that I'm really most proud of: that I'm still... people still would like to see me. I love seeing them.
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No disrespect to Sweden: I didn't think of them as the comedy universe.
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Oprah: Is there a muscle you use for performing?Billy: Yes - my brain.
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I've said, I never thought I rebelled. I never - I don't think I've ever had that period. You know, I just had to do what I had to do. You know, I was a good kid.
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Rehearsals are for gags.
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Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.
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I've never looked at - with the exception of little snippets - very much of anything I've done in the last 15, 20 years.
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As a comedian, you have everything working against you.
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As far as the media goes, I'm driving in the left lane at 28 miles an hour.
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I could always improvise. Some of my teachers remember me standing in front of the class with a flower on my head, talking about photosynthesis. I'd stop and say, 'Is this working for any of you?' The kids were like, 'What is he doing?'
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I'd stand on a coffee table, and my cousin Edith would give me dimes, and you put the dimes on your head... And when your forehead was full, show was over.
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That whole concept of 'I want to really go after people' - I don't understand that. Is it a roast, or is it an awards show?
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I went to my first game May 30, 1956, and Mantle was in the beginnings of his Triple Crown season. And he was drop-dead handsome.
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You don't want to wait for that aged jockey role.
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I was always looking for something else to do most of the time, until I got into the acting program. Then, I really found myself.
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I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.
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I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop.
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My mum, Helen, was hilarious. She had a tremendous sense of humour and was a great singer and tap dancer. For many years, she was the voice of Minnie Mouse in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She would be in the float as it came along, singing whatever the Minnie Mouse song of the day was. She was a really big spirit in my life.
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That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
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Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.
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I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against.
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To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, with his natural strength.