A biography for Billy Crystalhasn’t been written yet.
“I was always looking for something else to do most of the time, until I got into the acting program. Then, I really found myself.”
“That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.”
“That's the thing that I'm really most proud of: that I'm still... people still would like to see me. I love seeing them.”
“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.”
“Gentlemen, start your egos.”
“My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.”
“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.”
“When I first started, there were, like... two or three critics that you thought, 'Alright, I hope I get a good review from them.' And now there's millions of them.”
“No disrespect to Sweden: I didn't think of them as the comedy universe.”
“Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.”
“People are always telling you you're done. Someone's always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.”
“My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.”
“When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.”
“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?”
“When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.”
“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.”
“Mr. Hitchcock knew what he was doing.”
“The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.”
“Change is such hard work.”
“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.”