Jerry Lewis Quotes
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Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
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I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have, and I never will.
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I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope.
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Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.
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The people at Columbia Pictures have been great, but I had to tell them, 'Please don't be nice to me. Just pay me.'
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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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When you are debilitated, and you're very depressed, and you believe there's no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down.
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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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You think about getting old, but when you get there, it's not what you thought it would be.
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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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An only child, I always wanted a large hug-house.
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I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off.
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I feel I have been a part of some very wonderful films, and I have had it in mind when I was on the set, every day, that what I am doing has meaning.
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I make sure that I take good care of me.
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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.
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A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.
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People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
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I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.'
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Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'
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I think so much in time. I always have. Even at 20, I thought in terms of time, that I don't have a lot of time left. And I want to do so many things.
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I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.
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What's happened at 85 is I've lost my appetite. I used to be a little hog when I was young. But now I really don't seem to need it.
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I'm sour at times.
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When you're doing a different kind of film, you have to bring a different kind of attitude; you have to bring a different kind of concentration.