Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.
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There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.
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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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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.
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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.
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The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book.
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I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.
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Ali forced us to take a look at ourselves. This brash young man who thrilled us, angered us, confused and challenged us, ultimately became a silent messenger of peace who taught us that life is best when you build bridges between people, not walls.
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I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.
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When I was about 21 and just about to get out of college at NYU, Vietnam was raging, and I was a frustrated musician for a little bit.
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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
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I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.
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There are all these things I want to accomplish. We never know how long we're going to get.
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Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.
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That's still the greatest high, that feeling of being in control of 2,000 people. It's me and them, and I like the odds. It's not even so much the funny. It's getting them quiet. In the quiet moments in '700 Sundays,' I just really love that they're getting moved.
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I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in you that it's hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.
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Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don't think you can make your kids' dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams.
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My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
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What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.
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Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.
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You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.
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I pride myself in being able to survive just about any situation on stage now. I can handle pressure.
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I'm proud that I have done so many different kinds of things and maintained an amazing family. And I think that's the joy: that I've been able to have everything.