Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.
Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.
Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.
Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.
During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.
Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
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 don't let my feelings out. The audience brings out the part of me that wants to be funny. Maybe I want to be like that very deep down.
I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.
I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.
I shave without using shaving cream.
I still haven't hit what I do best yet.
I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.
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.
It started to get to me, playing this poor slub husband whose wife makes fun of him. People in the industry said the wife is terrific.
Money is sensual.
My book is a humorous look back at my path to enlightenment-stories include my meeting Anne-getting married-raising a family. The Sullivan years. The Seinfeld Phenomenon. It's written solely by me over an 18-year period.
My cousin was even married to a Streit. We all thought he was rich-but he turned out to be a Streit who worked in the back of the factory putting the matzo in the oven.
My father and mother-I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.
Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.
Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.
The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.
This sitcom looks so simple, but the demands on the performers are tremendous. There's very little time to rehearse.
We didn't have the money for a Passover seder when I was a kid, so our family would show up at relatives' homes unannounced. We were seder crashers.
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.
Specialization is a feature of every complex organization, be it social or natural, a school system, garden, book, or mammalian body.
Jerry appeared in the film "Zoolander" in 2001.
He and his wife appeared on "Toast of the Town" (aka "The Ed Sullivan Show") 36 times.
Jerry has one brother and two sisters.
His autobiography "Married to Laughter" came out in 2000.
Jerry married his wife in 1954.
Jerry was named as "King of Brooklyn" at the Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival in 2000.
He is the grandfather of Ella Olivia Stiller and Quinlin Dempsey Stiller.
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