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Jerry Stiller

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

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Asa Don Brown

"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

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Asa Don Brown

"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny."

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Asa Don Brown

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

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Asa Don Brown

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

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Asa Don Brown

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

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Asa Don Brown

"We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life."

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Asa Don Brown

"The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining."

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Asa Don Brown

"When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot."

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Asa Don Brown

"You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't."

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Jerry Stiller
"Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience."

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Jerry Stiller
"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."

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

Funny

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Jerry Stiller
"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."

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Jerry Stiller
"I loved the idea of touching base with an audience."

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Jerry Stiller
"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."

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Jerry Stiller
"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."

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

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

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Jerry Stiller
"Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie."

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