Jerry Stiller Quotes

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

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

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#3. Money is sensual.

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#4. I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

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#5. We are even better looking on the small screen

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#6. Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

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

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

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#11. 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.

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

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#13. Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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#21. I shave without using shaving cream.

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