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We're in this together. We are Americans. We all have to do the best we can. And we will because that's who we are.

As a comedian, you have everything working against you.

Billy Crystal

Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.

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It is great seeing the fruits of your labor. The joy I have in watching my daughters with their kids is great, because they're doing a wonderful job, and the kids are fantastic.

Billy Crystal

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

Billy Crystal

I'd stand on a coffee table, and my cousin Edith would give me dimes, and you put the dimes on your head... And when your forehead was full, show was over.

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Doing my Broadway show '700 Sundays' reminded me how much I love working in front of an audience.

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When I was about 21 and just about to get out of college at NYU, Vietnam was raging, and I was a frustrated musician for a little bit.

Billy Crystal

I have performed my one-man show '700 Sundays' over 400 times now. There were only two times that I can honestly say I was nervous. The first was when I knew Mel Brooks was in the audience, and the second was when Sid Caesar came.

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To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

Billy Crystal

I could always improvise. Some of my teachers remember me standing in front of the class with a flower on my head, talking about photosynthesis. I'd stop and say, 'Is this working for any of you?' The kids were like, 'What is he doing?'

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My dad died when I was 15 and worked way too much.

Billy Crystal

Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had.

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

We're in this together. We are Americans. We all have to do the best we can. And we will because that's who we are.

Billy Crystal

Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.

Billy Crystal

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

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Change is such hard work.

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I'm almost shocked that I'm still around after all of these years... and always grateful that I get another turn to do something.

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My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.

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

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Gentlemen, start your egos.

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One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.

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President Clinton knew the course and goes, 'Here's what you want to do here.' By the fourth hole, you wanted to hit him with your putter.

Billy Crystal

In the late 1960s, I was working as an usher for the New York stage production of 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.'

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Rehearsals are for gags.

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That whole concept of 'I want to really go after people' - I don't understand that. Is it a roast, or is it an awards show?

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I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.

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My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

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In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.

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Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?

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What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

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

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I watch old 'Truth or Consequences' on Hulu. 'Concentration.' And 'The Match Game' with Gene Rayburn.

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When you're 65, you're surprised by what turns you on.

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Performing was how I was able to release this pain I had.

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I really could've been a good student, but I was always hearing an imaginary audience.

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