Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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Of course my uncle was a giant, but my dad, in particular, had the house filled with these great Dixieland jazz stars, really the best of them: Henry Red Allen, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Buster Bailey, Cutty Cutshall, Tyree Glenn, Zutty Singleton. These are all big names in the Dixieland world.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!
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I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.
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When I first started, there were, like... two or three critics that you thought, 'Alright, I hope I get a good review from them.' And now there's millions of them.
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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.
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Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?
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Since I got into the movies, 'Running Scared,' that did $40 million. 'Princess Bride,' I got good reviews for the character Miracle Max. 'Memories of Me' didn't do well. 'Throw Mama from the Train' did $70 million. 'Harry and Sally' did 95 or 96. 'City Slickers' did $120 million.
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Mr. Hitchcock knew what he was doing.
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In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
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It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.
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When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.
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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.
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The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?
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Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplating my age, or losing friends to illness - I'll start to chip away at it. If you can poke holes in it, it's not as formidable; it's not as scary, and ultimately, it becomes another truth.
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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.
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Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.