Jerry Lewis Quotes
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I happen to believe in the human condition so strongly that I don't have to make up games to play with people. Here's what I think: If it's good, let's go for it. If it needs work to be better, let's work on it.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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 started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.
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Billy Crystal, Steve Martin do wonderful things.
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I never stop working.
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Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'
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I'm sour at times.
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Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.
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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 don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.
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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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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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That never stops. That's what drives you: the joy and excitement of doing what you love.
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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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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 dream in color.
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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.
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Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.