Jerry Lewis Quotes

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

Funny, Woman, Dream

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

Life, Friendship, Loyalty

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

Life, Hope, Selfish

If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.
Jerry Lewis

Pain, Heart, Tomorrow

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

Love, Time, Best

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.
Jerry Lewis

Kids, Paid, Punished

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.
Jerry Lewis

Politics, Feelings, Personal

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

Long, Sense, Keep

I've had great success being a total idiot.
Jerry Lewis

Success, Great, Idiot

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

Work, Before, Negative

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

Power, Pain, Two

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

Work, Hurt, Pain

A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.
Jerry Lewis

Life, Today, Children

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.
Jerry Lewis

Woman, Her, Comedy

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

Pain, Everything, Wonderful

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.
Jerry Lewis

Fool, Laugh, Him

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

Time, Everything, Together

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

Nice, Words, Hear

I need the applause.
Jerry Lewis

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.
Jerry Lewis

Education, Else, Sense

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

Tell, Expect, Audience

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

Give, Enough, Young

I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.
Jerry Lewis

Today, Children, Away

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.
Jerry Lewis

Funny, Smart, Down

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.
Jerry Lewis

Work, Respect, Greatest

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Nationality: American

Born: March 16, 1926

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