Best 12 quotes of Jerry Stiller on MyQuotes

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

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

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

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.

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

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

I shave without using shaving cream.

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.

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

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

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.

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.