"And I'm very animated when I do it anyway, so my hands would move and so on, so the character moves like me." - Billy Crystal
"And I'm writing a play - a one-man show that's very, very autobiographical, which ought to be ready by the end of the year." - Billy Crystal
"And so they were real funny, hip, Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Louie Armstrong, all these guys were always around." - Billy Crystal
"Any therapist I've ever met, I have a lot of friends from school who are, their lives are stinky." - Billy Crystal
"As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is." - Billy Crystal
"As soon as they announced the nominations, I'd wake up thinking Shakespeare jokes - Shakespeare in love, Shakespeare in heat, Private Ryan, General Ryan, Saving Shakespeare, Ryan in Love, y'know?" - Billy Crystal
"At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn't have something to say on a nightly basis." - Billy Crystal
"Bambi, to a kid, was scary." - Billy Crystal
"De Niro agreed to come to the reading, but he hadn't committed yet. So he showed up, and about 30 people were there, and they really enjoyed it." - 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
"Hopefully you've got something good to do, and people trust you." - Billy Crystal
"I didn't have a specific monster guy." - Billy Crystal
"I had fears of the dark, you know. I didn't like being in the dark." - Billy Crystal
"I had generalized anxiety which is worse." - Billy Crystal
"I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something." - Billy Crystal
"I kept pushing, saying make that a little edgier, you can go a little further." - Billy Crystal
"I knew the audience that would come to see this would be adults and kids and the older, wrinkled kids will love this movie too." - Billy Crystal
"I played clarinet but what was natural for me was to imitate them and make them laugh." - Billy Crystal
"I really like to watch it, and I'll spend part of it with the Arizona Diamond Backs, a small team I like." - Billy Crystal
"I think Shrek was terrific." - Billy Crystal
"I'm the runt of the litter too." - Billy Crystal
"I've seen the tests of me as Buzz Lightyear. They used lines from When Harry Met Sally which was hysterical." - Billy Crystal
"It was also the timing of the '50's. There were also some great comedy shows on live TV." - Billy Crystal
"It's different than in a movie where you shoot it and then you know you have it or you do a reshoot." - Billy Crystal
"It's great - a great thing to do, and I've tried to make the m.c. job more than just an announcing spot - or even a commentary on the prizes, y'know?" - Billy Crystal
"Jiminy Cricket was a phenomenal character." - Billy Crystal
"My dad was a jazz producer." - Billy Crystal
"My dad was in the music business." - Billy Crystal
"My mother was the voice of Minnie Mouse for a little while in the Macy's Day parades in New York." - Billy Crystal
"Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro." - Billy Crystal
"People are excited that Snow White came out on DVD." - Billy Crystal
"Shrek is a fantastic fable, really funny and it's great too." - Billy Crystal
"So, I grew up amongst jazz musicians." - Billy Crystal
"That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul." - Billy Crystal
"The epic animation, the whale, Cleo, all the other stuff that Disney was able to put in movies, amazing ideas." - Billy Crystal
"The Father's Day script was never ready to shoot. It was a rush job. There was too much to explain." - Billy Crystal
"The house smelled of brisket and bourbon. That's the music I grew up on." - Billy Crystal
"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
"The label was a legendary label, a family business called the Commodore Jazz label." - Billy Crystal
"The tone is crucial, especially when you're working with something like psychiatry." - Billy Crystal
"There was always a stand-up on Ed Sullivan on Sunday and my dad would bring home comedy albums from the store." - Billy Crystal
"There were some pretty scary movies back then, which now seem not as scary to some people, but Psycho, as a kid, was just terrifying." - Billy Crystal
"To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing." - Billy Crystal
"To be part of the legacy of Snow White and Pinocchio and Old Yeller and Davy Crockett and the Mouse Club and Annette and now the Pixar movies, which he would be thrilled about." - Billy Crystal
"We carefully thought out stuff. I spoke to a therapist, who I don't pay, who's a friend. I spoke with someone who works at the suicide hotline." - Billy Crystal
"We owned this little record store on 42nd Street and he knew we loved comedy." - Billy Crystal
"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar." - Billy Crystal
"What I love about the movie, at any time, is that families can go see it together and it should provoke thought and discussion about fear and about kids." - Billy Crystal
"Whoopie always says she's only leasing that job." - Billy Crystal
"Yeah, Pinocchio. It's a great story, the little boy. You could relate to the kid." - Billy Crystal
"You had to use your imagination in the best of ways to get into their heads, because the animators sort of know what it's gonna be, but you help create their paints for them." - Billy Crystal
"You have to eliminate Walt Disney company like we know it today. What it started out to be was what influenced me as a kid." - Billy Crystal
