American actor, writer, producer, comedian, film director, and baseball player “Bill Crystal” was born on 14th March, 1948 in Manhattan. He became famous to the world in 1970s for playing role of Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap. Academy awards have been hosted by Billy Crystal for eight times. Here is provided information of Billy Crystal, Movies and Quotes.
Billy Crystal became a hollywood film star in the end of the 1980s and the start of 1990s when he appeared in “City Slickers” and “When Harry Met Sally” which got success on the box office. He was brought up in Long beach, New York and completed his education from the “Long Beach High School” and also studied in Huntington at Marshall University for baseball scholarship. His father, Jack crystal was his teacher of baseball game and also producer of Jazz records and executive of a record company. Richard crystal is a brother of Billy Crystal, who is a well known producer of the Television industries. In the age of 15, Billy Crystal faced a personal tragedy when his father died from heart attack. In spite of this tragedy, he was very positive and likable as a kid.
Billy had unique talents for making people laugh. By this talent, Billy got his influence from shows like "The Honeymooners" (1955), and "The Ed Sullivan Show" and performers like Alan King, Ernie Kovacs and Jonathan Winters and began stand-up comedy at the age of 16. He had married with Janice Crystal on 4th June, 1970. He has 2 daughters (Lindsay Crystal, Jennifer Crystal) and one granddaughter Ella Ryan.
From 1971 to 1975, Billy crystal was member of improvisational comedy troupe called We the People, Comedy Jam, and Three's Company and house manager of stage production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, New York, NY, 1971; stand-up comedian, 1975. He performed in number of clubs, including the Bitter End, Catch a Rising Star, Playboy Club, and Comedy Store. Billy was host of radio call In program broadcasts from Marshall University. Billy Crystal worked with Alumni Theatre Group at Nassau Community College and as a substitute teacher at Long Beach Junior High School, Long Island, NY.
Recently Billy crystal is going to release his new comic whose title is Tooth Fairy. Former slugger of the WWF “The Rock” will also be seen in this comic along with Billy Crystal.
Billy Crystal Quotes:
- "At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn't have something to say on a nightly basis."
- "As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is."
- "Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
- "(On his wife) the reason we are together is because she puts lead in my shoes and doesn't let me fly off the earth. And it's always been that way."
- "I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something."
- "Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro."
- "As soon as they announced the nominations, I'd wake up thinking Shakespeare jokes - Shakespeare in love, Shakespeare in Heat, Private Ryan, General Ryan, Saving Shakespeare, Ryan in Love, y'know?"
- "Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising."
- "That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul."
- "The house smelled of brisket and bourbon. That's the music I grew up on."
- "(to Robin Williams on "Father's Day") No, there is no dead body in the middle of the road. You didn't hit anyone."
- "The epic animation, the whale, Cleo, all the other stuff that Disney was able to put in movies, amazing ideas."
- "The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh."
- "In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it."
Billy Crystal Filmography:
Billy has crystal played role in number of movies. For the first time, he played a role of "Lionel Carpenter" in Rabbit test movie in 1978.
- Rabbit Test (1978) as "Lionel Carpenter"
- Animalympics (1980) (voiceover) as "Lodge Turkell"
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984) as "Morty the Mime"
- Running Scared (1986) as "Danny Costanzo"
- The Princess Bride (1987) as "Miracle Max"
- Throw Momma from the Train (1987) as "Larry Donner"
- Memories of Me (1988) as "Abbie"
- When Harry Met Sally... (1989) as "Harry Burns"
- City Slickers (1991) as "Mitch Robbins"
- Horton Hatches the Egg (1992) narrator (voice)
- Mr. Saturday Night (1992) as "Buddy Young, Jr."
- City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994) as "Mitch Robbins"
- Forget Paris (1995) as "Mickey Gordon" (also directed by Billy Crystal)
- Hamlet (1996) as "First Gravedigger"
- Deconstructing Harry (1997) as "Larry/The Devil"
- Father's Day (1997) as "Jack Lawrence"
- My Giant (1998) as "Sam 'Sammy' Kamin"
- Analyze This (1999) as "Ben Sobel, M.D."
- America's Sweethearts (2001) as "Lee Phillips"
- Monsters, Inc. (2001) as "Michael (Mike) Wazowski" (voice)
- Analyze That (2002) as "Ben Sobel, M.D."
- Howl's Moving Castle (film) (2005) as "Calcifer" (voice)
- Cars (2006) (Cameo Voice)
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