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Gentlemen, start your egos!
Billy Crystal
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Billy Crystal
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 14
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William Edward Crystal
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Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
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I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap.
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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
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I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.
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Change is such hard work.
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The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.
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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.
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[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.
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Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
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As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
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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.
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I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.
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Great news! Hosting Oscars counts five hours toward my community service!
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Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures.
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Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going to look, the best I'm ever going to feel, the best I'm ever going to do,' and it ain't that great?
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Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.
Billy Crystal
My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.
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