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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

"I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her."

"If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me."

"My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University."

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."
Explore more quotes by Jerry Stiller

"During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one."

"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."

"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."

"Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances."
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