Jerry Stiller Quotes

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

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • America
  • Hate

• We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Wife

• I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Me
  • Proud
  • Always

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • People
  • Care
  • Circumstances

• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Second
  • Liked
  • Rembrandt

• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Dog
  • Voice
  • Wall

• No one pays me to be nice.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Pays

• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Heart
  • Doubt
  • Paris

• The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Time
  • Red
  • First

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Listening

• I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Favorite
  • Pink
  • Sign

• I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Truth
  • Problem
  • Stereotypes

• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
  • Man
  • Pain

• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Know
  • Clothes
  • Throw

• It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • People
  • Life
  • Book

• My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • May
  • Father

• For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Film
  • Chance
  • Bigs

• My partner has to have good sized bones.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Good
  • Partner
  • Bones

• At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Work
  • School

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

  

  Jerry Stiller
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