Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis AMis an American actor, comedian, singer, film producer, film director, screenwriter and humanitarian. He is known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage, music and radio...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth16 March 1926
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
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It will take nothing less than a domestic Marshall Plan to rebuild our roads and utilities and homes and businesses.
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The human needs in the Gulf region are all too apparent,
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The human needs are all too apparent in the gulf area. We fully expect to be approving more assistance.
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And he's right on the money every time. And I'm hysterical laughing at this kid!
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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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I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.
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I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.
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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.
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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.
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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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Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.
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Make film, shoot film, run film. Do something. Make film. Shoot anything.
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When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
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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.'