Jerry Lewis Quotes
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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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When I arrived in Las Vegas, I felt I was embraced by it.
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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 don't talk about anything negative.
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A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.
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Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.
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Every day is another something that comes along.
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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 have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.
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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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Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
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I've had great success being a total idiot.
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My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.
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I got the 'Max Rose' script, and I fell in love with it. It just hit me. It was something that needed to be made.
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I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.
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I was once six feet tall, but at 85, I'm now five feet four.
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I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.
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Going unnoticed has never been my strong suit.
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My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.
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I don't like any female comedians.
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I've raised my boys the old-fashioned way, with spankings, sending them upstairs if they misbehave at parties, the works. I believe discipline is the proof of love.
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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.
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Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.
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I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.