Jerry Lewis Quotes
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Adrenaline is so strong that none of us understand it.
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Turning 90 is not for sissies.
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I expect people that come to the studio to work to come with the same energy I come with. If I see less than that, I get very strong about, if you want to do this, come with a sense of pride, come with eagerness and anxiety.
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When I arrived in Las Vegas, I felt I was embraced by it.
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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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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 don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.
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This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?
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I dream in color.
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I don't talk about anything negative.
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What happens at 90 is that I don't walk so good, my eyes are going, I can't hear well, and I'm getting all of the 90s residuals.
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When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.
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If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.
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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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It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.
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I never stop working.
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I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.
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My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.
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I've never been more than 9 years old.
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The greatest thing I can remember in my whole career was the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey clowns asking me to appear with them at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1965.
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I believe when you go out there, you have a responsibility to deliver. I have old-fashioned thinking when I'm out there.
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I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.
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A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.
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Love is what makes you dream, and love is what makes you want to get up in the morning. Love is something that you want to be a part of because it makes you better.