Jerry Lewis Quotes
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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 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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Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.
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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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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 never stop working.
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When I arrived in Las Vegas, I felt I was embraced by it.
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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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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 almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.
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God hadn't made me handsome, but he'd given me something, I always felt: funny bones.
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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 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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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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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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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 have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.
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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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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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When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
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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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I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.