Jerry Lewis Quotes
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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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Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.
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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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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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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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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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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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Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.
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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 make sure that I take good care of me.
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Turning 90 is not for sissies.
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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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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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People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
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Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.
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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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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.
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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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The film I did with Bobby De Niro, 'The King of Comedy' - an awful lot came to me out of that movie because De Niro never allowed me any room to be crazy. If I had tried to play it the way I would normally play it and get hysterical, Bobby would punch me.
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Adrenaline is so strong that none of us understand it.
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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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Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'