Jerry Stiller Quotes

• We are even better looking on the small screen

  Jerry Stiller

  Screens

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• During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

  Jerry Stiller

  Depression, Men, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

  Jerry Stiller

  Lines, Might, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.

  Jerry Stiller

  Running, People, Together

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories.

  Jerry Stiller

  Memories, Size, Aging

  "Fictional character: Maury Ballstein". "Zoolander", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

  Jerry Stiller

  War, Hollywood, Vietnam

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

  Jerry Stiller

  Creativity, Creative, Growing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.

  Jerry Stiller

  Mother, Father, Fighting

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• The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.

  Jerry Stiller

  Talent, Worst, Worst Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

  Jerry Stiller

  Looks, Youth, Tricks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

  Jerry Stiller

  Ideas, Touching, Audience

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I shave without using shaving cream.

  Jerry Stiller

  Shaving Cream, Shaving, Cream

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

  Jerry Stiller

  Alzheimer's, Alzheimer, Sitcom

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.

  Jerry Stiller

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.

  Jerry Stiller

  Block, Years, Trails

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.

  Jerry Stiller

  Actors, Analogies, Brilliant

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• I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

  Jerry Stiller

  Thinking, Judgment, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I ask myself why I do it [work]. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body.
  I'm not an NBA player anymore.
  At my age, very few people can handle it.

  Jerry Stiller

  Player, Nba, People

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