Jerry Stiller famous quotes

03-25-2025

We are even better looking on the small screen
-- Jerry Stiller
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
I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny
-- Jerry Stiller

#Thinking #Judgment
Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field
-- Jerry Stiller

#Creative #Growing #Fields
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
I shave without using shaving cream
-- Jerry Stiller

#Shaving #Cream
Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way
-- Jerry Stiller

#Lines #Might #Way
Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads
-- Jerry Stiller
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 doÂ HamletÂ 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
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
I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.
-- Jerry Stiller

#Block #Years #Trails
The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.
-- Jerry Stiller

#Talent #Worst
I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.
-- Jerry Stiller

#Ideas #Touching #Audience
Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
-- Jerry Stiller

#War #Hollywood #Vietnam
Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's
-- Jerry Stiller

#Alzheimer #Sitcom
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
I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories.
-- Jerry Stiller

#Memories #Size #Aging
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

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