221 Quotes by Billy Crystal

As a comedian, you have everything working against you.

Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.

What life throws at you - you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball's outside, you hit to the right. You don't let them go by.

All that time, you go, 'God, am I slipping away here?' And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work.

Of course my uncle was a giant, but my dad, in particular, had the house filled with these great Dixieland jazz stars, really the best of them: Henry Red Allen, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Buster Bailey, Cutty Cutshall, Tyree Glenn, Zutty Singleton. These are all big names in the Dixieland world.

We're in this together. We are Americans. We all have to do the best we can. And we will because that's who we are.

There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.

President Clinton knew the course and goes, 'Here's what you want to do here.' By the fourth hole, you wanted to hit him with your putter.

It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.