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
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
There are all these things I want to accomplish. We never know how long we’re going to get. – Billy Crystal
My dad had two, sometimes three jobs. Besides running the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, he did jazz concerts, and he ran this great jazz label, Commodore. – Billy Crystal
I don’t know what I would have done to rebel. I don’t know what I was rebelling against. – Billy Crystal
I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I’d substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop. – Billy Crystal
We’re seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids should not be exposed to with explosions, carnage and violence. – Billy Crystal
What life throws at you – you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball’s outside, you hit to the right. You don’t let them go by. – Billy Crystal
To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, with his natural strength. – Billy Crystal
There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press ‘send,’ and everyone’s got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher. – 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?’ – Billy Crystal
You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they’re raising them. You can’t push your way into areas where you shouldn’t be saying anything. You have to always remember they’re not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death – then hand them back. – Billy Crystal
A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it’s really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it’s great. – 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
My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself. – Billy Crystal
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
I watch old ‘Truth or Consequences’ on Hulu. ‘Concentration.’ And ‘The Match Game’ with Gene Rayburn. – Billy Crystal
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? – Billy Crystal
I still don’t love the darkness, though I’ve learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then. – Billy Crystal
Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them, and yet at his heart, he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all. – Billy Crystal