Jerry Stiller Quotes

#1. It's weird that the world sees modeling as a negative. It just blows my mind how many people think that because I was a model, I think I'm pretty and that I can use my looks to get ahead. I'm not pretty!

Kellan Lutz

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

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#3. Do not stand downwind from a sweaty person ...

Ivana Hruba

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

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#5. Let the children be able to Read so they can develop their brains early.

Amaka Oguejiofo

#6. 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

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

Jerry Stiller

#9. 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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#10. 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

#11. A complex system benefits from not following the same practices over and over again. By enduring a little bit of stress and continuously adapting to variability in the environment, the system learns to become fitter and healthier.

Jurgen Appelo

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

Jerry Stiller

#13. I rapped, as was my custom,

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

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#16. All that crap about love and fairness and doing something with your life, Bruno ... Those are luxury problems. The CEO's wife can go around worrying about that stuff. People like us from the projects have to play by a different set of rules."

George Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd

Steen Langstrup

#17. What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver

#18. I shave without using shaving cream.

Jerry Stiller

#19. We burst through the gardens, half leaping over wheelbarrows in the first, avoiding a crop of herbs in the second, and getting barked at by an evil terrier in the third.

Anonymous

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

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#21. Money is sensual.

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

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

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#24. Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.

Donny Osmond

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

Jerry Stiller

#26. To be aware of inattention is to be attentive. Complete attention is love. It alone can see, and the seeing is the doing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#27. The universe, then, is God, of whom the popular gods are manifestations; while legends and myths are allegorical. The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Jerry Stiller

#29. I think that one thing I have learned as a freshman is that it is really important to collaborate.

Terri Sewell

#30. 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

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

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

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#33. In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.

Woody Allen

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

Jerry Stiller

#35. Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

Greg Egan