I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while. Billy Crystal More Quotes by Billy Crystal More Quotes From Billy Crystal Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it. Billy Crystal growing-up new-york kids My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me. Billy Crystal grandparent grandchildren fun I'm a sucker for a free tuxedo. Billy Crystal tuxedos sucker Great news! Hosting Oscars counts five hours toward my community service! Billy Crystal oscars news community I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again. Billy Crystal grateful drinking years 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 dream kids thinking My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself. Billy Crystal mind needs thinking I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing. Billy Crystal rebel teenager children I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap. Billy Crystal clip soap dream The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh. Billy Crystal inspiration brother laughing 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 government criticism long 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? Billy Crystal feels looks I'm married - I've caught my limit. Billy Crystal caught married limits 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. Billy Crystal sleep baby night I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something. Billy Crystal scared hearing noise At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn't have something to say on a nightly basis. Billy Crystal bases Those are all real things that I experienced, not with [my daughters] growing up but with the, you know - I'm trying not to step into something and get a call, "Dad why'd you say that?"! But we'd go to games [where score wasn't kept], and I'd get it, but I wouldn't get it, because I think there's a real value in winners and losers, in not everybody getting a trophy - it makes you work hard, you appreciate what it takes, to say, "Why didn't we win?" You shouldn't be condemned for losing. Billy Crystal growing-up dad daughter It's gon na be four years in August and it just -- it feels like a second ago, but I just hope that people will come and see this movie and understand a little bit more about the man and what made him this explosively funny genius. Billy Crystal entertainment I never heard him afraid like that before, this was the boldest comedian I ever met — the boldest artist I ever met. But this was just a scared man. Billy Crystal entertainment I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then. Billy Crystal now smile darkness love
