Billy Crystal Quotes

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Billy Crystal

Profession : Comedian

Birth : March 14, 1947

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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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

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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.

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My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

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I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.

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My dad died when I was 15 and worked way too much.

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My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.

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Change is such hard work.

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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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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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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've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.

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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'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

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My Aunt Sheila was terrifying! She would put a napkin in her mouth and say, 'You've got something on your face, dear. Let me just scratch that off your face. Let me sand your cheek.'

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People are always telling you you're done. Someone's always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.

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Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.

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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.

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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

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'Parental Guidance' combines comedy and pathos in the best way.

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