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Top Jerry Lewis Quotes

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Favorite Jerry Lewis Quotes

1. "I shall pass through this world but once, any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now, let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again" ~ Jerry Lewis
2. "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 they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?" ~ Jerry Lewis
3. "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 the wildest laboratory in the world, the public." ~ Jerry Lewis
4. "People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics." ~ Jerry Lewis
5. "Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us." ~ Jerry Lewis
6. "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
7. "Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands." ~ Jerry Lewis
8. "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
9. "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
10. "I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already." ~ Jerry Lewis
11. "I get paid for what most kids get punished for." ~ Jerry Lewis
12. "If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well." ~ Jerry Lewis
13. "People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius." ~ Jerry Lewis
14. "I need the applause." ~ Jerry Lewis
15. "I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years." ~ Jerry Lewis
16. "I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains." ~ Jerry Lewis
17. "Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!" ~ Jerry Lewis
18. "When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man." ~ Jerry Lewis
19. "I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many people... I'm not so opinionated that I won't budge." ~ Jerry Lewis

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