Jerry Stiller quotes
-
“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 -
“I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny”
-- Jerry Stiller -
“Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field”
-- Jerry Stiller -
-
“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 -
“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 StillerSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
-
-
“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 -
“My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.”
-- Jerry Stiller -
“I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.”
-- Jerry Stiller -
“The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.”
-- Jerry Stiller -
-
“I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.”
-- Jerry Stiller -
“Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.”
-- Jerry Stiller -
“Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's”
-- Jerry Stiller -
“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 -
-
“I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories.”
-- Jerry StillerSource : "Fictional character: Maury Ballstein". "Zoolander", www.imdb.com. 2001.
-
“During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.”
-- Jerry Stiller
You may also like:
-
Adam Sandler
Actor -
Anne Meara
Actress -
Ben Stiller
Actor -
Christine Taylor
Actress -
Gary Valentine
Actor -
Jason Alexander
Actor -
Jerry Seinfeld
Comedian -
Jim Carrey
Actor -
John Travolta
Actor -
Kevin James
Actor -
Kristen Wiig
Actress -
Larry David
Actor -
Leah Remini
Actress -
Michael Richards
Actor -
Michelle Monaghan
Actress -
Nicole Sullivan
Actress -
Owen Wilson
Actor -
Patton Oswalt
Comedian -
Vince Vaughn
Film actor -
Wayne Knight
Actor