Billy Crystal Quotes
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My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.
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I have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.
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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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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.
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I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.
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When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.
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It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.
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Mr. Hitchcock knew what he was doing.
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I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. They take the stuff they want, throw the rest away, and keep running. That's what life is about.
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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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I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.
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Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?
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Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.
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When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.
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I really could've been a good student, but I was always hearing an imaginary audience.
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I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years... and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.
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My girls turned out great.
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My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.
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Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
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I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?
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My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
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Your first friends are your truest friends, I find. And the ones that stick are really special.
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Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly alone in the house with her because my two older brothers were away at college. I was the man of the house, and she was the grieving woman.