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
dream men stuff
The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.
hope selfish kids
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.
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.
phones years two
If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I'm sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they'll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I'm hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes.
running sexy blue
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.
feelings comedy personal-feelings
I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.
women facts matter
I have nothing against women. As a matter of fact there's something about them that I love, but I just can't put my finger on it.
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.
creative film professors
(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.
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.
house want pity
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
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.