Billy Crystal Quotes
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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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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I hate competition.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!
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I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.
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I had a very lonely New Year's this year. I had to watch my own balls drop.
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I do a lot of conferences, and I did a campaign with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation called "Just Say Hi." They get celebrities to record little messages about how you start a conversation with someone who has a disability, which is to "Just say hi."
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.
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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.
