Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal
William Edward "Billy" Crystal is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian and television host. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes When Harry Met Sally..., City Slickers, and Analyze Thisand providing the voice of Mike Wazowski in the Monsters, Inc. franchise...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth14 March 1948
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
[My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.
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
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.
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.
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’ll warm your heart, it’ll make your eyes glisten, and you’ll think to yourselves, Robin Williams, what a concept.
Change is such hard work.
Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck's puff pastries.
Great news! Hosting Oscars counts five hours toward my community service!
I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.
Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.