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
kids paid
I get paid for what most kids get punished for.
years laughing alive
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.
ownership share born
The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.
pain fall cutting
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?
hard-work use may
You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.
smart needs hot
I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.
pain wonderful adrenaline
Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.
feelings comedy personal-feelings
I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.
doors common-sense instinct
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.
laughing people tables
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.
government wells knows
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.
loyalty hands giving
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.
hate people hatred
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
years audience entertainers
I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.