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I'm going to be your grandpa!...

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 137 quotes

By the time a man is wise eno...

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

Billy Crystal 137 quotes

Gentlemen, start your egos! ...

Gentlemen, start your egos!

Billy Crystal 137 quotes

When comedy is good, it's jaz...

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

Billy Crystal 137 quotes

We were in front of a live au...

We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. ... I wanted to sort of stop and yell at them, "What's so funny? What's the matter with you people? Grow up!" It made me very self-conscious at times.

Billy Crystal 137 quotes

Two thousand years ago Jesus ...

Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.

Billy Crystal 137 quotes

[My mother] is the greatest h...

[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 137 quotes

Consider the rose...The rose ...

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

Billy Crystal 137 quotes

I was introducing [director a...

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 137 quotes

There's only, I think, in lif...

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 137 quotes

When you realize you want to ...

When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.

Billy Crystal 137 quotes

I think when I feel I'm at my...

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

Billy Crystal 137 quotes

[I did impressions] of relati...

[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 137 quotes

I always came away thinking "...

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 137 quotes

Every time I was with Sammy [...

Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures.

Billy Crystal 137 quotes

When I've gotten criticism, i...

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 137 quotes

The inspiration was this grea...

The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh.

Billy Crystal 137 quotes

The Passion of the Christ ope...

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

Billy Crystal 137 quotes

I never stopped believing in ...

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 137 quotes

When I first started, there w...

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.

Billy Crystal 137 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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