42 Quotes by 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.

We are even better looking on the small screen.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

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.

I shave without using shaving cream.

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

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

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

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