Gerald Isaac "Jerry" Stiller is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for duties as George's dad in Seinfeld, and also Doug's papa in The King of Queens. In younger days he was what we today call a funnyman.
Stiller has joined several feature films, especially popular films are Zoolander (2001) as well as Secret of the Andes (2000) where, to name a few, Nancy Allen was with. 9. February 2007, Stiller as well as spouse honored with a joint star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The 28 October 2010, appeared Stiller as well as his partner on an episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Stiller composed the foreword to the book Festivus: The Holiday for the remainder of us (ISBN 0-446-69674-9) by Allen Salkin, published 26 October 2005. His memoirs were published in 2000.
Jerry Stiller is the papa of actors Ben Stiller and Amy. Stiller was the earliest of four youngsters and he was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the boy of Bella (née Citrin) and also William Stiller, a bus vehicle driver. At the end of the 1990s emerged Sets up in a collection of Nike television commercials along with the late head trainer of the Green Bay Packers, Vince Lombardi. Stiller is a wonderful fanatic of fighting styles.
His grandparents on his daddy's side were Austrian Jewish immigrants as well as his maternal grandparents were Russian Jews. He was informed at Surprise Lake Camp in Cold Spring and also Seward Park High School in New York. After he went to Syracuse University, he received a bachelor's degree in speech and also drama in 1950.
Our collection contains 18 quotes who is written / told by Jerry.
"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"
"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years"
"I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny"
"Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances"
"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"
"Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's"
"The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent"
"Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads"
"Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way"
"Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie"
"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"
"I shave without using shaving cream"
"I loved the idea of touching base with an audience"
"Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience"
"During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one"
"Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field"
