Billy Crystal Quotes
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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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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?'
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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.
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Performing was how I was able to release this pain I had.
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I don't go to any of the big Academy parties while the show is on because, invariably, it turns to people watching me watch the host, and it's not comfortable. I watch at home and hope the show gets to be really good.
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I was raised mostly by my mom.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I've worn down America.
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Change is such hard work.
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The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.
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Our professor was Marty Scorsese. Marty was a graduate student, or Mr. Scorsese, which is what I had to call him, and still do when I see him 'cause he gave me a C.
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We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids should not be exposed to with explosions, carnage and violence.
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Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them, and yet at his heart, he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all.
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I love Mickey Mantle. Would I have felt the same if I had known when I was eight years old what I know now?
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It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.