Billy Crystal Quotes
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I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.
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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
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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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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 can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.
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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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I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.
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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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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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I don't know what I would have done to rebel. I don't know what I was rebelling against.
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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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At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
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What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.
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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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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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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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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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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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There are all these things I want to accomplish. We never know how long we're going to get.
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I can't bear to think of life without Janice. I want to go first because I don't want to miss her, because that would be a pain far worse than any death.
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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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All that time, you go, 'God, am I slipping away here?' And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work.
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What life throws at you - you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball's outside, you hit to the right. You don't let them go by.