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

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

From Billy Crystal

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.

From Billy Crystal

What life throws at you - you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball's outside, you hit to the right. You don't let them go by.

From Billy Crystal

My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

From Billy Crystal

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.

From Billy Crystal

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.

From Billy Crystal

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.

From Billy Crystal

When I was growing up in the house, we'd watch the Oscars.

From Billy Crystal

I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do.

From Billy Crystal

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