Explore Quotes by Billy Crystal

I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.

What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book.

Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?

I love Mickey Mantle. Would I have felt the same if I had known when I was eight years old what I know now?

When I first started, there were, like... two or three critics that you thought, 'Alright, I hope I get a good review from them.' And now there's millions of them.

The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

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.

When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.

My girls turned out great.

When you're 65, you're surprised by what turns you on.

Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.

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

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

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

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.

My dad had two, sometimes three jobs. Besides running the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, he did jazz concerts, and he ran this great jazz label, Commodore.

As far as the media goes, I'm driving in the left lane at 28 miles an hour.

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

I really could've been a good student, but I was always hearing an imaginary audience.

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.