Jerry Stiller Quotes

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

Jerry Stiller

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• I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Actress

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • Family
  • Funny

• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Growing
  • Matter
  • Grandfather

• My mom and grandma, growing up, one thing they emphasized was that you need to make sure that anything you put on your skin is also digestible by the body. For example, if something isn't safe for me to eat or consume, it's probably not good for your face. So I do a lot of natural remedies.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Important
  • Growing

• Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Influence

• While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Actor

• I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Comedy

• Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.

  

  Gabe Newell
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  • Pretty
  • Growing

• I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Funny

• I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• I love sci-fi. Growing up, I was a big fan of the 'Alien' series, 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,' etcetera. Plus, anything apocalyptic - 'I Am Legend,' '1984,' 'Battlestar Galactica.'

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Growing
  • Know
  • Space

• I had plenty of vices growing up.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• When I was growing up, my father would not allow me to get a perm, so I straightened my hair for special occasions.

  

  Angela Robinson
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• My thing is, everything I do, I leave it out there and let the chips fall where they may.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • May
  • Fall
  • Everything

• When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging?

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • World

• At Horace Mann High School in affluent Riverdale, New York, one of the top schools in the country, those who receive double time on tests are plentiful enough to qualify as their own segment of the student body. Known to their peers as 2Ts, they participate in the same activities, get the same grades, and attend the same range of colleges.

  

  Eliot Schrefer
  • Time
  • Country
  • School

• Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

  

  Jerry Stiller
  • Growing
  • Comedy