Billy Crystal Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Eye, College

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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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.

  Billy Crystal

  Grateful, Drinking, Years

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it.

  Billy Crystal

  New York, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

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• I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.

  Billy Crystal

  Noise, Hearing, Scared

  "Billy Crystal for 'Monsters Inc.'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 1, 2001.

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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.

  Billy Crystal

  Nice, Kids, Thinking

  "Billy Crystal And John Goodman: How We Got Here". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. June 14, 2013.

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• The house as I say ... smelled of brisket and bourbon, so you could hear that. I started imitating them. Phrases came out of that, "Can't you dig that?" "I knew that you would." We were at [Passover] Seders and they were confused with the bitter herbs, "Do we smoke these or do we do we dip them in salt water?" "We dip them in salt water, well that's gonna kill the vibrancy of the weed, you know." So that's what I was around. So I would imitate them. That's where it all started.

  Billy Crystal

  Weed, Confused, Water

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. October 17, 2013.

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• I'm a sucker for a free tuxedo.

  Billy Crystal

  Tuxedos, Sucker

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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.

  Billy Crystal

  Long, Grandpa, Waiting

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• As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

  Billy Crystal

  Character, Directors, Actors

  "Billy Crystal for 'Monsters Inc.'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 1, 2001.

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

  Billy Crystal

  Black, Comedy, Being Old

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• [I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.

  Billy Crystal

  Stars, Uncles, Dad

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. October 17, 2013.

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• I never stopped believing in us and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. I describe in the book [that] I don't think I ever felt young again in that way. I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in you that it's hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.

  Billy Crystal

  Father, Believe, Book

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.

  Billy Crystal

  Friday, Passion, Ashes

  "The 76th Annual Academy Awards", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• [My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

  Billy Crystal

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant.

  Billy Crystal

  Father, Kids, Years

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• I always came away thinking "I'd like to see her more," you know? And then when [Parental Guidance] was ready to be cast, we thought - Bette [Midler]. So we called her.

  Billy Crystal

  Thinking, Guidance, Now And Then

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

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• I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

  Billy Crystal

  Different, Happened

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

  Billy Crystal

  Baseball, Oklahoma, Mitzvah

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

  Billy Crystal

  Funny, Humorous, America

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• Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

  Billy Crystal

  Kids, Scary, Comedy

  "Billy Crystal for 'Monsters Inc.'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. November 1, 2001.

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• I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

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  Film Directing, Nyu, Comedian

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap.

  Billy Crystal

  Dream, Soap, Clip

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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?

  Billy Crystal

  Government, Long, Criticism

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June, 2004.

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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.

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  Dad, Home, Style

  "Billy Crystal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

  Billy Crystal

  Ghouls, Sids, Saws

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