Quotes for All
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
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
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
When we had the girls, my daughter Jenny gave us like a Bible from my daughter of, “Don’t feed them this; don’t feed them that, if she says this, don’t say that,” It was crazy! Billy Crystal
From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that’s what I had to do. Billy Crystal
I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl. Billy Crystal
Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the ’70s. Billy Crystal
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I’d always go off book and start improvising. Billy Crystal
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. Billy Crystal
Those are all real things that I experienced, not with [my daughters] growing up but with the, you know – I’m trying not to step into something and get a call, “Dad why’d you say that?”! But we’d go to games [where score wasn’t kept], and I’d get it, but I wouldn’t get it, because … Read more