A biography for Billy Crystalhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.”
“The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book.”
“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.”
“Rehearsals are for gags.”
“What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.”
“I've worn down America.”
“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.”
“I can't bear to think of life without Janice. I want to go first because I don't want to miss her, because that would be a pain far worse than any death.”
“Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?”
“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.”
“I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.”
“I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.”
“I watch old 'Truth or Consequences' on Hulu. 'Concentration.' And 'The Match Game' with Gene Rayburn.”
“I went to my first game May 30, 1956, and Mantle was in the beginnings of his Triple Crown season. And he was drop-dead handsome.”
“It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.”
“I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.”
“I never worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!”
“Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.”
“Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.”