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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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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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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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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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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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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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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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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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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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
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Typically, every 14 to 16 months, we're putting a new album out. To be honest, I wish it was slower.
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I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.
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Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.
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The psychological detective story in "Equus" made Peter Shaffer's name as a playwright. But it was his next play, "Amadeus," that cemented his reputation, largely because of the movie version. Another battle of wills, it was the story of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seen through the eyes of lesser composer Antonio Salieri.
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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.
