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Jerry Stiller Biography

Gerald Isaac Stiller (born June 8, 1927) is an American comedian and actor. He spent many years in the comedy team Stiller and Meara with his wife, Anne Meara. He later played Frank Costanza on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld and Arthur Spooner on the CBS comedy series The King of Queens. Stiller and Meara are the parents of actor Ben Stiller, with whom Stiller co-starred in the films Zoolander, Heavyweights, Hot Pursuit, The Heartbreak Kid and Zoolander 2. Stiller is known for his angry, yelling acting style.[citation needed]

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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.

Actors, Analogies, Brilliant, Say, See

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

Block, Merry, Trails, Years

I shave without using shaving cream

Cream, Shave, Shaving, Shaving Cream, Using

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

Lines, Might, Way, Punch, Line

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

Funny, Good, Judgment, Know, Knows, Thinking

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

Look, Looks, Make, Pictures, Tricks, Youth

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

Business, Talent, Thought, Worst, Worst Things

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

Back, Come, Easily, Heads, Routines, Top

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

Become, Depression, Laughed, Men, People, Worries

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

Ideas, Touching, Audience, Base, Loved

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

Memories, Size, Aging, Bad, Prostate

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

Father, Fighting, Make, Material, Mother

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

Hollywood, Movie, Vietnam, War

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's

Alzheimer, Alzheimer'S, Sitcom, Stops

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.

Player, Nba, People, Takes, Work

We are even better looking on the small screen

Looking, Screen, Screens, Small

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

Running, People, Together, Things, Strength

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field

Comedy, Creative, Creativity, Field, Growing