Billy Crystal

It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.

I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.

Can you imagine if Babe Ruth had had Twitter?

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.

When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.

My girls turned out great.

Performing was how I was able to release this pain I had.

I pride myself in being able to survive just about any situation on stage now. I can handle pressure.

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.