Billy Crystal

“Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplating my age, or losing friends to illness - I'll start to chip away at it. If you can poke holes...”

“Since I got into the movies, 'Running Scared,' that did $40 million. 'Princess Bride,' I got good reviews for the character Miracle Max. 'Memories of Me' didn't do well. 'Throw Mama from the...”

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

“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,...”

“From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.”

“The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I was saddened, of course, but felt a sense of relief that he was at last free from the indign...”

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

“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.”

“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 w...”

“Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.”

“The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?”

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

“I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in you that it's hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.”

“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.”

“Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.”

“Gentlemen, start your egos.”

“Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.”

“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.”

“It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.”

“I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do.”