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When I get an idea, I start to write like I was electrically motivated.
Jerry Lewis -
You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.
Jerry Lewis
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I almost resent being Charley Moviestar. Yeah, I'm grateful. But it takes me away from my kids.
Jerry Lewis -
When you are debilitated, and you're very depressed, and you believe there's no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down.
Jerry Lewis -
Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.
Jerry Lewis -
Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.
Jerry Lewis -
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.
Jerry Lewis -
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.
Jerry Lewis
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I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have, and I never will.
Jerry Lewis -
I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.
Jerry Lewis -
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.
Jerry Lewis -
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Jerry Lewis -
I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off.
Jerry Lewis -
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.
Jerry Lewis
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Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'
Jerry Lewis -
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.'
Jerry Lewis -
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.
Jerry Lewis -
Turning 90 is not for sissies.
Jerry Lewis -
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.
Jerry Lewis -
The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.
Jerry Lewis
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I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.
Jerry Lewis -
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.
Jerry Lewis -
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.
Jerry Lewis -
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.
Jerry Lewis