Billy Crystal

I was raised mostly by my mom. ”

I never stopped believing in us, and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. ”

You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world. ”

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. ”

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

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish. ”

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

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. ”

One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life. ”

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. ”