Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.
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I have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.
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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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It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.
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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 didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.
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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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Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?
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When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.
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Mr. Hitchcock knew what he was doing.
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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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My girls turned out great.
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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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I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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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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I really could've been a good student, but I was always hearing an imaginary audience.
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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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Your first friends are your truest friends, I find. And the ones that stick are really special.
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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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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 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 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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Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.