Billy Crystal Quotes
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Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?
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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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Mr. Hitchcock knew what he was doing.
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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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I started writing in 1948 - basically.
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In the late 1960s, I was working as an usher for the New York stage production of 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.'
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My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.
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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.
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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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I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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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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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 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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I really could've been a good student, but I was always hearing an imaginary audience.
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I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.
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A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's 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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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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I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.
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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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I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
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My girls turned out great.
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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?