Jerry Stiller Quotes

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

Jerry Stiller

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• I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • You
  • Me
  • Tell

• The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Years
  • Losing
  • Key

• Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Passion

• I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Long
  • Kids

• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
  • Film
  • Student

• By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Time
  • Want
  • Small

• Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Reality
  • Political
  • Chance

• 'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • People
  • Power
  • Support

• Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Good
  • Culture

• I don't drink coffee.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Coffee
  • Drink
  • Drink Coffee

• Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Always

• I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Funny
  • Like
  • Modern

• A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Meet

• Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Patient
  • Normal
  • Instincts

• Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

  

  Karl Marx
  • World

• How many is there, John?.Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a hobby of mine - I've been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I've been acting.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• I want to see movies I can walk away from and say, 'Wait, what happened there? Hold up, what did I just see? What?' and then it connects to something that you personally, unequivocally know to be truth.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Up
  • Truth

• Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized incarceration. The steady supply of guns in the U.S. makes an already untenable situation even more dangerous, and all of us must raise our voices, write to Congress, hit the streets in protest, attend budget meetings of local municipalities - all to state our opposition to such criminal procedures and practices for our youth.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Writing
  • Mean
  • Financial

• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Artists
  • Copy
  • Steal

• It's not just me. People are in their roles, and they've stayed in them all year.

  

  Bob Wickman
  • People
  • Year
  • Roles

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

  

  Jerry Stiller