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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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To me, little Mike Wazowski is one of the best characters I ever got to play because he was funny. He was outrageous. He got angry. He was romantic. He was a full, well-rounded character.
Billy Crystal
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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 really could've been a good student, but I was always hearing an imaginary audience.
Billy Crystal -
I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.
Billy Crystal -
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 -
From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.
Billy Crystal -
Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.
Billy Crystal
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I have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.
Billy Crystal -
Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all.
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Performing was how I was able to release this pain I had.
Billy Crystal -
I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.
Billy Crystal -
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.
Billy Crystal -
The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.
Billy Crystal
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I never worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!
Billy Crystal -
I was a good baseball player. I still play a couple of times a week as part of my daily workout. Just throwing the ball, running around, fielding ground balls, you know. It's better to me than being on a treadmill or some sort of Zumba class.
Billy Crystal -
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.
Billy Crystal -
I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in you that it's hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.
Billy Crystal -
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 -
My girls turned out great.
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 -
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
Billy Crystal -
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 -
Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.
Billy Crystal