Jerry Lewis Quotes

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• You might as well like yourself; just think about all the time you're gonna have to spend with you.

  Jerry Lewis

  Thinking, Might, Like You

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• For those who understand, no explaination is needed...For those who don't, none will do.

  Jerry Lewis

  Needed

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• When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.

  Jerry Lewis

  Fathers Day, Zoos, Dad

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• If you think childlike, you'll stay young. If you keep your energy going, and do everything with a little flair, you're gunna stay young. But most people do things without energy, and they atrophy their mind as well as their body. You have to think young, you have to laugh a lot, and you have to have good feelings for everyone in the world, because if you don't, it's going to come inside, your own poison, and it's over.

  Jerry Lewis

  Thinking, Laughing, People

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• People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear what's great about me now. Let me hear it! In the box you don't hear these eulogies.

  Jerry Lewis

  People, Eulogy, Want

  "Jerry Lewis talks about his love for Dean Martin". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. November 12, 2005.

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

  Jerry Lewis

  Feelings, Comedy, Personal Feelings

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• I've had great success being a total idiot.

  Jerry Lewis

  Success, Hilarious, Idiot

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• 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.

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  Loyalty, Running, Commitment

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• 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

  Years, Laughing, Looks

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• The doc told me I had a dual personality. Then he lays an 82 dollar bill on me, so I give him 41 bucks and say, 'Get the other 41 bucks from the other guy.'

  Jerry Lewis

  Giving, Guy, Personality

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• 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, Dream, Witty

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• I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

  Jerry Lewis

  Kids, Paid

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jerry Lewis

  Nice, Want, Remembered

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• Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.

  Jerry Lewis

  Men, Comedy, Trouble

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• 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

  Hope, Selfish, Kids

  "Emmy honors Jerry Lewis for charity work". www.today.com. September 12, 2005.

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• You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.

  Jerry Lewis

  Hard Work, Use, May

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• 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.

  Jerry Lewis

  Ownership, Share, Born

  Jerry Lewis, James Kaplan (2011). “Dean And Me: A Love Story”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Baby, Thinking, Machines

  "Hey Laaaady: Jerry Lewis Isn't Laughing". www.cbsnews.com. February 14, 2000.

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• Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.

  Jerry Lewis

  Pain, Wonderful, Adrenaline

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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.

  Jerry Lewis

  Loyalty, Hands, Giving

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• People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

  Jerry Lewis

  Hate, People, Hatred

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• (The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.

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  Creative, Film, Professors

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• 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.

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  Country, Pain, Cancer

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• 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.

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  Children, Growing Up, Years

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• 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

  Fall, Taken, Two

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