Billy Crystal Quotes

Since I got into the movies, 'Running Scared,' that did $40 million. 'Princess Bride,' I got good reviews for the character Miracle Max. 'Memories of Me' didn't do well. 'Throw Mama from the Train' did $70 million. 'Harry and Sally' did 95 or 96. 'City Slickers' did $120 million.

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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Success
  • Face
  • Conventional

• Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Like
  • Jewelry

• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • I Can

• My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• I have been the victim of heartless malice.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Been
  • Victim
  • Heartless

• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Celebrity

• A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Positive
  • Thoughts
  • Attitude

• I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Comfortable
  • Skin
  • Jew

• Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Everything
  • Create

• Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Work
  • Change
  • Media

• Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Democracy
  • End
  • Competition

• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Will

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Ending

• Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

  

  Jan Brewer

• I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek' article about the emerging downtown club scene, and, well, that was it for NYU. I was off and running.

  

  James St. James
  • Running
  • Study

• Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.

  

  Callimachus
  • Good
  • Die
  • Son

• Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Together
  • Friend

• Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Work
  • Great
  • Christian

• Since I got into the movies, 'Running Scared,' that did $40 million. 'Princess Bride,' I got good reviews for the character Miracle Max. 'Memories of Me' didn't do well. 'Throw Mama from the Train' did $70 million. 'Harry and Sally' did 95 or 96. 'City Slickers' did $120 million.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Good
  • Character
  • Running