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