Billy Crystal Quotes

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.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

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.

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

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.

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

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

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.

Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck's puff pastries.

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.

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

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

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

This time I particularly loved because it came from a real experience with my grandchildren. Having them alone alone for the first time for six or seven days and going "Wow, this is exhausting," because when you're not around little ones for a long time, you forget about how much work that is. So I came in and started writing the story that became this movie ['PARENTAL GUIDANCE'].

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

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.

If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.

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

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.

I'm married - I've caught my limit.