Jerry Lewis Quotes

Jerry Lewis (33)

Birth:	16th March, 1926
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Producer

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Births

• 1883 - Elsa Maxwell
• 1972 - Danny Bautista
• 1937 - Archie Shepp
• 1909 - Wilbur Mills
• 1963 - Michael Chabon

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• 1995 - Harold Wilson
• 1996 - Joseph Mitchell
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• 1997 - Edward Mulhare
• 1543 - Nicolaus Copernicus

• Every man’s dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

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• I’ve had great success being a total idiot.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 s*xy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.

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• It’ll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.’

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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.

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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.

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• I don’t want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.

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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.

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• From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I’ve taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you’re gonna have problems.

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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.

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• Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.

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• A lot of people resent that I’ve been in someone’s life for 50 years. Why shouldn’t people have an affection for me and what I’ve done? Didn’t I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they’re 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.

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