Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

Billy Crystal Quotes

American - Comedian Born: March 14, 1947

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. Billy Crystal

Reason, Sex, Need

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. Billy Crystal

Love, Waiting, Became

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. Billy Crystal

Book, Your, Eiffel Tower

Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn. Billy Crystal

Love, Alive, Movie

Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all. Billy Crystal

Love, Injustice, Religious

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that. Billy Crystal

Love, Starting Over, Over

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. Billy Crystal

Learn, Go, Which

I could always improvise. Some of my teachers remember me standing in front of the class with a flower on my head, talking about photosynthesis. I'd stop and say, 'Is this working for any of you?' The kids were like, 'What is he doing?' Billy Crystal

Doing, Some, About

You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back. Billy Crystal

Love, Doing, Play

Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly alone in the house with her because my two older brothers were away at college. I was the man of the house, and she was the grieving woman. Billy Crystal

College, Woman, Away

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I was a good baseball player. I still play a couple of times a week as part of my daily workout. Just throwing the ball, running around, fielding ground balls, you know. It's better to me than being on a treadmill or some sort of Zumba class. Billy Crystal

Play, Couple, Some

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving. Billy Crystal

Loving, Living, Going

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

Remember, Could, Same Things

Of course my uncle was a giant, but my dad, in particular, had the house filled with these great Dixieland jazz stars, really the best of them: Henry Red Allen, Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Buster Bailey, Cutty Cutshall, Tyree Glenn, Zutty Singleton. These are all big names in the Dixieland world. Billy Crystal

Big, Buster, Allen

Change is such hard work. Billy Crystal

Work, Hard Work, Change

I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. They take the stuff they want, throw the rest away, and keep running. That's what life is about. Billy Crystal

I Think, Away, About

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love. Billy Crystal

Love, She, Will

Kids need a happy household. They need to be loved and supported in their dreams. And I don't think you can make your kids' dreams your own. They need you to support them in their dreams. Billy Crystal

Happy, Think, Need

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing. Billy Crystal

Believe, Doing, Need

Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them, and yet at his heart, he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all. Billy Crystal

Kid, Years, Gods

Your success is in your point of view. It's your life that you're talking about; it's your observations. That's the best lesson that I ever had. Billy Crystal

Point Of View, Success Is

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. Billy Crystal

Show, Mel Brooks, Caesar

'Parental Guidance' combines comedy and pathos in the best way. Billy Crystal

Guidance, Best Way, Pathos

Gentlemen, start your egos. Billy Crystal

Start, Egos, Gentlemen

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

First Time, Knew, Saw

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

Think, Happiest, Like

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