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It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.
Billy Crystal
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It is great seeing the fruits of your labor. The joy I have in watching my daughters with their kids is great, because they're doing a wonderful job, and the kids are fantastic.
Billy Crystal
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Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?
Billy Crystal
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My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.
Billy Crystal
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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.
Billy Crystal
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I have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.
Billy Crystal
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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.
Billy Crystal
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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.
Billy Crystal
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Mr. Hitchcock knew what he was doing.
Billy Crystal
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When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.
Billy Crystal
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I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.
Billy Crystal
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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.
Billy Crystal
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I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
Billy Crystal
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Your first friends are your truest friends, I find. And the ones that stick are really special.
Billy Crystal
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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.
Billy Crystal
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My girls turned out great.
Billy Crystal
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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.
Billy Crystal
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I really could've been a good student, but I was always hearing an imaginary audience.
Billy Crystal
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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.
Billy Crystal
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President Clinton knew the course and goes, 'Here's what you want to do here.' By the fourth hole, you wanted to hit him with your putter.
Billy Crystal
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When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, 'What's he doing hitting the government?'
Billy Crystal
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Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.
Billy Crystal
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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?
Billy Crystal
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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.
Billy Crystal
