Jerry Lewis Quotes
Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.
Quotes to Explore
-
Isolationism is over.
-
I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
-
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
-
Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
-
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
-
I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
-
I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
-
You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
-
We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
-
These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
-
Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
-
My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
-
I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
-
I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
-
Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
-
As opposed to journalists, politicians cannot make do with questions. They must also offer answers.
-
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
-
No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.
-
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
-
My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
-
Now that I'm angry at Harold, it's hard to remember what was so remarkable about him.
-
Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
-
Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.
