Jerry Lewis Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Adrenaline is so strong that none of us understand it.
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When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.
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Turning 90 is not for sissies.
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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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I dream in color.
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Billy Crystal, Steve Martin do wonderful 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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When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
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There's nothing more dramatic than the comedy I've done. Because the comedy I've done is to get to the audience, get them to feel it, or they won't laugh.
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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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I've never been more than 9 years old.
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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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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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To ask a pratfall comedian, a dishes-in-the-face comic like me, to lay back and bring none of that stuff to the script because it doesn't call for it? That's tough.
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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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You can't be faulted for being selfish if you're going to get better because of it.
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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.