Billy Crystal Quotes
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I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.
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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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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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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 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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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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There are all these things I want to accomplish. We never know how long we're going to get.
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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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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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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 dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.
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Gentlemen, start your egos.
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The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.
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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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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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When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.