My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

- Billy Crystal

Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

- Billy Crystal

My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.

- Billy Crystal

I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.

- Billy Crystal

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

- Billy Crystal

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

- Billy Crystal

I never worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!

- Billy Crystal

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

- Billy Crystal

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

- Billy Crystal

In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.

- Billy Crystal

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

- Billy Crystal

My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.

- Billy Crystal

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

- Billy Crystal

Gentlemen, start your egos.

- Billy Crystal

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

- Billy Crystal

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

- Billy Crystal

I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.

- Billy Crystal

I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.

- Billy Crystal

I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.

- Billy Crystal

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

- Billy Crystal