Billy Crystal Quotes

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Billy Crystal

Profession : Comedian

Birth : March 14, 1947

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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That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

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My dad had two, sometimes three jobs. Besides running the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, he did jazz concerts, and he ran this great jazz label, Commodore.

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I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.

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You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.

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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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I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.

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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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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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My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.

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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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When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.

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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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Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

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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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The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

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Gentlemen, start your egos.

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I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop.

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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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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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