Billy Crystal Quotes

My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.

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• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Successful
  • Run
  • Discover

• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Hair
  • Gay
  • Unique

• The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Good
  • Country
  • Game

• I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Me
  • Never
  • Animal

• Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

  

  Aaron Hill
  • Thoughts
  • Consequences

• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • History
  • Today
  • Beginning

• A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Time
  • Fight
  • Arts

• Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Night
  • Wall
  • Write

• It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Present

• Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Sexy
  • Emotions
  • Forced

• I have no ill will about anything.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Will
  • Anything
  • Ill

• Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • You
  • Stand
  • Soft

• Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Head
  • Pocket
  • Favorable

• No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Up
  • Different
  • Why

• At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • Waiting
  • Listening

• When you are working on a TV show or series, you just get into the routine. You get used to getting up early. It takes a few days, but once you are up and running, you get used to going home late, and it becomes this very repetitive cycle.

  

  Philip Glenister
  • Up
  • Home
  • Running

• I have always been a great believer that women should support women, and my admiration goes out to mothers everywhere, as they constantly put their own needs behind those of their children, embracing daily uncertainties and entering the new uncharted territories that each day brings, to be, in return, rewarded with joy and unending love.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Great
  • Women
  • Children

• There are many philanthropists who we admire and have learned a great deal from, including mentors like Bill and Melinda Gates and peers like Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz.

  

  Priscilla Chan
  • Great

• My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Great
  • Strong
  • Dad