Billy Crystal Quotes

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Billy Crystal

Profession : Comedian

Birth : March 14, 1947

We're in this together. We are Americans. We all have to do the best we can. And we will because that's who we are.

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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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It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.

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That's the thing that I'm really most proud of: that I'm still... people still would like to see me. I love seeing them.

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I'm proud that I have done so many different kinds of things and maintained an amazing family. And I think that's the joy: that I've been able to have everything.

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Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.

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I've never looked at - with the exception of little snippets - very much of anything I've done in the last 15, 20 years.

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As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?

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I can't bear to think of life without Janice. I want to go first because I don't want to miss her, because that would be a pain far worse than any death.

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When you're 65, you're surprised by what turns you on.

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My mum, Helen, was hilarious. She had a tremendous sense of humour and was a great singer and tap dancer. For many years, she was the voice of Minnie Mouse in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She would be in the float as it came along, singing whatever the Minnie Mouse song of the day was. She was a really big spirit in my life.

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One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.

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My girls turned out great.

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The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?

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Your first friends are your truest friends, I find. And the ones that stick are really special.

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No disrespect to Sweden: I didn't think of them as the comedy universe.

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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.

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When I first started, there were, like... two or three critics that you thought, 'Alright, I hope I get a good review from them.' And now there's millions of them.

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I started writing in 1948 - basically.

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I have performed my one-man show '700 Sundays' over 400 times now. There were only two times that I can honestly say I was nervous. The first was when I knew Mel Brooks was in the audience, and the second was when Sid Caesar came.

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