Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Jerry Stiller

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American comedian Jerry Stiller.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Gerald Isaac Stiller was an American actor and comedian. He spent many years as part of the comedy duo Stiller and Meara with his wife, Anne Meara, to whom he was married for over 60 years until her death in 2015. Stiller saw a late-career resurgence starting in 1993, playing George Costanza's father Frank on the sitcom Seinfeld, a part which earned him an Emmy nomination. The year Seinfeld went off the air, Stiller began his role as the eccentric Arthur Spooner on the CBS comedy series The King of Queens, another role which garnered him widespread acclaim.

American - Comedian | June 8, 1927 - May 11, 2020

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

Jerry Stiller

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

Jerry Stiller

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

Jerry Stiller

I shave without using shaving cream.

Jerry Stiller

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

Jerry Stiller

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

Jerry Stiller

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

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

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Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

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

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Money is sensual.

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 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 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.

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We are even better looking on the small screen

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

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