Jerry Stiller Quotes
"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
(Related: Youth)
"Money is sensual."
- Jerry Stiller
(Related: Money)
"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."
- Jerry Stiller
(Related: Mother, Father, Fighting)
"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
(Related: People, Strength, Today)
"I shave without using shaving cream."
- Jerry Stiller
"Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way."
- Jerry Stiller
"Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads."
- Jerry Stiller
"Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience."
- Jerry Stiller
(Related: Idea)
"I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny."
- Jerry Stiller
(Related: Funny, Judgment)
"I ask myself why I do it. 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
(Related: Age, People, Body)
"Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie."
- Jerry Stiller
(Related: War, Hollywood, Vietnam)
"During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one."
- Jerry Stiller
(Related: Funny, Men, People, Audiences, Depression)
"Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field."
- Jerry Stiller
(Related: Comedy)
"Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's."
- Jerry Stiller
(Related: Being)
"Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances."
- Jerry Stiller
(Related: Money, Being, Care, Clothes)
"The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent."
- Jerry Stiller
(Related: Business, Thought)
"I loved the idea of touching base with an audience."
- Jerry Stiller
(Related: Idea)