Billy Crystal quotes

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
- Billy Crystal

Change is such hard work.
- Billy Crystal

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.
- Billy Crystal

For almost 40 years, he was the brightest star in the comedy galaxy, The beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever and the glow will be so bright, it will warm your heart, it will make your eyes glisten, and you will think to yourselves, Robin Williams, what a concept.
- Billy Crystal

There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.
- Billy Crystal

In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
- Billy Crystal

I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.
- Billy Crystal

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.
- Billy Crystal

Consider the rose...The rose is the sweetest smelling flower of all, and it's the most beautiful because it's the most simple, right? But sometimes, you got to clip the rose. You got to cut the rose back, so something sweeter smelling and stronger, and even more beautiful, will grow in its place.
- Billy Crystal

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

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
- 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

It's money. I remember it from when I was single.
- Billy Crystal

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

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

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

Gentlemen, start your egos.
- Billy Crystal

I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
- Billy Crystal

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

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