Billy Crystal Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.”
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“For almost 40 years, he was the brightest star in the comedy galaxy… The beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever and the glow will be so bright, it’ll warm your heart, it’ll make your eyes glisten, and you’ll think to yourselves, Robin Williams, what a concept.”
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“There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.”
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“In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.”
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“I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.”
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“Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.”
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“I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.”
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“Consider the rose...The rose is the sweetest smelling flower of all, and it's the most beautiful because it's the most simple, right? But sometimes, you got to clip the rose. You got to cut the rose back, so something sweeter smelling and stronger, and even more beautiful, will grow in its place”
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“To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.”
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“Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.”
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“At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.”
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“It's money. I remember it from when I was single”
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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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“By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.”
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“What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.”
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“That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.”
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“I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.”
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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'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.”
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“I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.”
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“The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.”
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“I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.”
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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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“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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“Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.”
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“I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.”
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“If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.”
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