221 Quotes by Billy Crystal

I was a good baseball player. I still play a couple of times a week as part of my daily workout. Just throwing the ball, running around, fielding ground balls, you know. It's better to me than being on a treadmill or some sort of Zumba class.

Mr. Hitchcock knew what he was doing.

I have performed my one-man show '700 Sundays' over 400 times now. There were only two times that I can honestly say I was nervous. The first was when I knew Mel Brooks was in the audience, and the second was when Sid Caesar came.

It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.

You don't want to wait for that aged jockey role.

I don't go to any of the big Academy parties while the show is on because, invariably, it turns to people watching me watch the host, and it's not comfortable. I watch at home and hope the show gets to be really good.

I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.

My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.

Performing was how I was able to release this pain I had.