Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America’s biggest export is now the Oscar. – 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. – 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
I pride myself in being able to survive just about any situation on stage now. I can handle pressure. – Billy Crystal
I’ve never looked at – with the exception of little snippets – very much of anything I’ve done in the last 15, 20 years. – Billy Crystal
Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don’t think you can make your kids’ dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams. – Billy Crystal
Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I’m in. – Billy Crystal
I’ve said, I never thought I rebelled. I never – I don’t think I’ve ever had that period. You know, I just had to do what I had to do. You know, I was a good kid. – Billy Crystal
All that time, you go, ‘God, am I slipping away here?’ And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work. – Billy Crystal
At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are. – Billy Crystal