Billy Crystal

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. ”

Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Whatever it is that's bothering me - interacting with annoying guy at a restaurant, contemplating my age, or losing friends to illness - I'll start to chip away at it. If you can poke holes in it, it's not as formidable; it's not as scary, and ultimately, it becomes another truth. ”

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. ”

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

All that time, you go, 'God, am I slipping away here?' And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work. ”

I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things. ”

Change is such hard work. ”