Jerry Lewis Quotes
I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I'm not graceful.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.
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It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people do.
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We neglect the opportunities which are always present, and imagine that if those that are rare were offered, we should put them to good use. Thus we waste life waiting for what if it came we should be unprepared for.
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Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.
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I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.
