I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
The beauty of love, as far as I'm concerned, is it makes you better. It makes you stronger. It gives you direction.… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
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… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!' — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
