Jerry Lewis Quotes
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When I'm working, I stay in ICU in any hospital that will get me a bed.
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Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.
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I will not say anything negative about the president of the United States. I don't do that. And I don't allow my children to do that.
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My God, the stage is the only place I know where to go.
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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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People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.
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When you get a question like, 'Did you like meeting Her Majesty?' 'No, I thought she was a slob.' I mean, what are you going to say... The mischief comes into me when I'm doing a Q&A, I'm 9 years old again. I don't get mad. I do get offended.
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If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.
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If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.
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You can ask me anything you want. That doesn't mean I'm going to answer you.
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I need the applause.
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Nothing can stop anyone who has a love and passion about their work.
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I almost resent being Charley Moviestar. Yeah, I'm grateful. But it takes me away from my kids.
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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 sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.
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I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
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An only child, I always wanted a large hug-house.
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The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you do in a straight scene. It's much harder.
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I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.
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I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.
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I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have, and I never will.
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Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.
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You see, the people that have a point of view and have an opinion and have some intellect are dangerous in the film community - they're dangerous.
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We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.
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When I get an idea, I start to write like I was electrically motivated.