Billy Crystal quotes

Billy Crystal is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for his quick wit and memorable roles in film and television. Audiences worldwide recognize him from movies like "When Harry Met Sally..." and for hosting the Academy Awards multiple times. He continues to be a beloved figure in the entertainment industry. Here are 35 of his quotes:

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, "What's he doing hitting the government?"

Billy Crystal

Change is such hard work.

Billy Crystal

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Billy Crystal

I did Bill Cosby's "Noah." Just took the routine from him, word for word, and didn't even think it was stealing. Years later my friends started calling me up saying, "There's this guy, Bill Cosby, who's doing your stuff!"

Billy Crystal

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

Billy Crystal

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Billy Crystal

You are a charmer. You are the Jewish Cary Grant.

Billy Crystal

I fell in love with the right person, a person I know and who knows me.

Billy Crystal

How do you find what's going to make everybody have this strange reaction in their bodies, this response that's sort of chemical and physical all at once-this noise and emotion that changes how you sit? A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

Billy Crystal

I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.

Billy Crystal

You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.

Billy Crystal

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

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

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

Billy Crystal

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

Billy Crystal

You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.

Billy Crystal

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

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

I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.

Billy Crystal

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

Billy Crystal

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

Billy Crystal

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

Billy Crystal