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Billy Crystal
American
Comedian
Born:
Mar 14
,
1947
Great
Life
Love
Me
People
You
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In the late 1960s, I was working as an usher for the New York stage production of 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.'
Billy Crystal
Good
You
Man
Good Man
Stage
Late
Charlie
Charlie Brown
Brown
New
York
New York
Working
Production
Usher
Believe me, happiness is not ticking off Walter Cronkite.
Billy Crystal
Happiness
Me
Believe
Cronkite
Ticking
Off
It is great seeing the fruits of your labor. The joy I have in watching my daughters with their kids is great, because they're doing a wonderful job, and the kids are fantastic.
Billy Crystal
Great
Joy
Wonderful
Job
Kids
Seeing
Daughters
Because
Doing
Labor
Wonderful Job
Fruits
Fantastic
Your
Watching
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.
Billy Crystal
Music
Great
Sometimes
Three
Jazz
Ran
Jobs
Besides
Running
Had
He
Concerts
Label
Did
Shop
Manhattan
Dad
Two
I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop.
Billy Crystal
Teacher
Day
School
Made
Everything
High
High School
Per
Absent
Junior
Junior High
Junior High School
Office
Same
Shop
Auto
Taught
Whenever
Substitute
English
Sat
To me, little Mike Wazowski is one of the best characters I ever got to play because he was funny. He was outrageous. He got angry. He was romantic. He was a full, well-rounded character.
Billy Crystal
Funny
Best
Angry
Character
Me
Characters
Outrageous
He
Because
Well-Rounded
Got
Romantic
Little
Mike
Full
Ever
Play
When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.
Billy Crystal
Funny
Thrilled
Get
My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
Billy Crystal
Teacher
Art
Older
Television
Brother
Rip
Singer
Himself
Became
Ultimately
Producer
Older Brother
Actor
I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in you that it's hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.
Billy Crystal
You
Way
Out
Kind
Never
Had
Knock
Make
Felt
Smooth
Years
Huge
Dent
Maybe
Again
Should
Hard
I'd stand on a coffee table, and my cousin Edith would give me dimes, and you put the dimes on your head... And when your forehead was full, show was over.
Billy Crystal
Me
You
Coffee
Would
Table
Give
Give Me
Put
Head
Over
Forehead
Cousin
Stand
Your
Full
Show
Coffee Table
When I was growing up in the house, we'd watch the Oscars.
Billy Crystal
House
Up
Growing
Growing Up
Watch
Oscars
I was always looking for something else to do most of the time, until I got into the acting program. Then, I really found myself.
Billy Crystal
Time
Myself
Looking
Else
Something
Something Else
Most
Until
Always
Got
Then
Really
Acting
Found
Program
That's still the greatest high, that feeling of being in control of 2,000 people. It's me and them, and I like the odds. It's not even so much the funny. It's getting them quiet. In the quiet moments in '700 Sundays,' I just really love that they're getting moved.
Billy Crystal
Love
Funny
Me
People
Feeling
Odds
Control
Sundays
High
Like
Greatest
Still
Quiet
Getting
Just
Moved
Being
Them
Much
Really
Moments
Even
That whole concept of 'I want to really go after people' - I don't understand that. Is it a roast, or is it an awards show?
Billy Crystal
People
Roast
Concept
Understand
Go
Want
After
Really
Show
Whole
Awards
To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, with his natural strength.
Billy Crystal
Day
Strength
Natural
Further
Guys
Nobody
Ball
His
Hit
Than
Mickey
Mantle
The Academy and the Oscars have been very gracious to me.
Billy Crystal
Me
Academy
Been
Very
Gracious
Oscars
I pride myself in being able to survive just about any situation on stage now. I can handle pressure.
Billy Crystal
Myself
Pride
Pressure
Situation
Stage
Able
About
Handle
Survive
Any
Just
Being
To Survive
Now
I've said, I never thought I rebelled. I never - I don't think I've ever had that period. You know, I just had to do what I had to do. You know, I was a good kid.
Billy Crystal
Good
You
Thought
Think
Kid
Never
Had
Do You Know
Know
Period
Said
Just
Rebelled
Ever
Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.
Billy Crystal
Life
Time
Me
Business
Enough
Enough Time
Scares
About
Having
Terms
Forgetting
Just
Want
Even
Things
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.
Billy Crystal
You
Conversation
People
Cares
Everyone
Say
Bit
Press
Would
Critics
No One Cares
Only
Tougher
Had
No-One
Look
Makes
Opinion
Got
Five
Intelligent
Send
Just
Little
Little Bit
Used
Who
Even
They Say
Now
Things
Four
Millions
Millions Of People
People are always telling you you're done. Someone's always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.
Billy Crystal
Day
You
People
Social Media
Telling
Someone
Always
Done
Social
Media
Now
I watch old 'Truth or Consequences' on Hulu. 'Concentration.' And 'The Match Game' with Gene Rayburn.
Billy Crystal
Truth
Game
Old
Consequences
Gene
Concentration
Match
Hulu
Watch
As far as the media goes, I'm driving in the left lane at 28 miles an hour.
Billy Crystal
Driving
Hour
Left
Goes
As Far As
Far
Lane
Miles
Media
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.
Billy Crystal
Family
You
Rat
Fraternity
Gym
Like
House
Becomes
Being
Theater
Then
Your
Extended
Extended Family
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.
Billy Crystal
Together
Wife
Parents
Took
Dating
Feel
Like
Looked
Always
How
Still
Being
Loved
Them
That's the thing that I'm really most proud of: that I'm still... people still would like to see me. I love seeing them.
Billy Crystal
Love
Me
People
Would
See
Seeing
Like
Most
Proud
Still
Them
Really
Thing
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