Jerry Lewis Quotes
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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Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
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I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.
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I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.
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Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally – that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.
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Nature is neutral.
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About half the practice of a decent lawyer consists of telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should stop.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.
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I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
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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.
