Jerry Lewis Quotes

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Jerry Lewis

Profession : Comedian

Birth : March 16, 1926

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

Jerry Lewis

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Jerry Lewis

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Jerry Lewis

God hadn't made me handsome, but he'd given me something, I always felt: funny bones.

Jerry Lewis

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.

Jerry Lewis

Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.

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.'

Jerry Lewis

I was once six feet tall, but at 85, I'm now five feet four.

Jerry Lewis

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

Jerry Lewis

I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.

Jerry Lewis

Nothing can stop anyone who has a love and passion about their work.

Jerry Lewis

I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.

Jerry Lewis

I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.

Jerry Lewis

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

Jerry Lewis

From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.

Jerry Lewis

When I arrived in Las Vegas, I felt I was embraced by it.

Jerry Lewis

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

Jerry Lewis

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

Jerry Lewis

I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

Jerry Lewis

When I get an idea, I start to write like I was electrically motivated.

Jerry Lewis