Jerry Lewis Quotes - Page 2

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• When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff.

  Jerry Lewis

  Men, Fellow Man, Stuff

  "My dream is to be perfect". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2004.

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• Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

  Jerry Lewis

  House, Want, Pity

  "CBS Sunday Morning", May 20, 2001.

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• I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

  Jerry Lewis

  Doors, Common Sense, Instinct

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• I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.

  Jerry Lewis

  Years, Audience, Entertainers

  "The nutty interview: We try to get answers from Jerry Lewis". Interview With Lisa Rose, www.nj.com. May 28, 2008.

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• I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.

  Jerry Lewis

  Children, Thinking, Cartoon

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• This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?

  Jerry Lewis

  Pain, Fall, Cutting

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• I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many people... I'm not so opinionated that I won't budge.

  Jerry Lewis

  Thinking, Views, Talking

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• When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

  Jerry Lewis

  Hurt, Pain, Adrenaline

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• If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

  Jerry Lewis

  Government, Wells, Know How

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• I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.'

  Jerry Lewis

  Thinking, Keys, Doors

  "Jerry Lewis, the Essence of Comedy" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. August 21, 2017.

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• Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.

  Jerry Lewis

  Sexy, Running, Blue

  Jerry Lewis, James Kaplan (2011). “Dean And Me: A Love Story”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

  Jerry Lewis

  Country, Brain, Critics

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• When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

  Jerry Lewis

  Men, Would Be, Needs

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• I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.

  Jerry Lewis

  Smart, Hot, Needs

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• If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I'm sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they'll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I'm hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes.

  Jerry Lewis

  Phones, Years, Two

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• Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

  Jerry Lewis

  Winning, Gambling, Losing

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• I have nothing against women. As a matter of fact there's something about them that I love, but I just can't put my finger on it.

  Jerry Lewis

  Women, Matter, Facts

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• Make film, shoot film, run film. Do something. Make film. Shoot anything.

  Jerry Lewis

  Running, Film

  Jerry Lewis (1971). “The Total Film-Maker”, Random House Trade

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• The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.

  Jerry Lewis

  Dream, Men, Stuff

  "Jerry Lewis, the Essence of Comedy" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. August 21, 2017.

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• Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

  Jerry Lewis

  People, Laughing, Tables

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• People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.

  Jerry Lewis

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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