Billy Crystal Quotes
I did Bill Cosby's 'Noah.' Just took the routine from him, word for word, and didn't even think it was stealing. Years later my friends started calling me up saying, 'There's this guy, Bill Cosby, who's doing your stuff!'
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.
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I am not graceful.
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To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
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Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.
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I did Bill Cosby's 'Noah.' Just took the routine from him, word for word, and didn't even think it was stealing. Years later my friends started calling me up saying, 'There's this guy, Bill Cosby, who's doing your stuff!'
