When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
Marriage is the result of the longing for the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share
Every mans dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share
When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share
People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share
I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share
I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share
I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor into an… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share
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… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share
When you are debilitated, and you're very depressed, and you believe there's no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share
I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share
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… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share
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… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share
We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share
