"I tell young comics, 'Do you want this……" — Jerry Lewis
"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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43 Quotes by Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis has 43 quotes on this site.
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When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?'…
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I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or…
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The doc told me I had a dual personality. Then he lays an 82 dollar bill on me, so I…
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I have nothing against women. As a matter of fact there's something about them that I love, but I just…
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I've had great success being a total idiot.
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(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work…
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You might as well like yourself; just think about all the time you're gonna have to spend with you.
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Make film, shoot film, run film. Do something. Make film. Shoot anything.
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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've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.
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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 really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something…
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to…
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I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm…
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When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over…
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I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
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America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only…
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Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs…
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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