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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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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I watch old 'Truth or Consequences' on Hulu. 'Concentration.' And 'The Match Game' with Gene Rayburn.
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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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As a comedian, you have everything working against you.
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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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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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As far as the media goes, I'm driving in the left lane at 28 miles an hour.
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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 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 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 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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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'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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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.
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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.