Jerry Quotes - Page 3

• When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

  Elton John

  Rocks, Play, Two

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. 12 November, 2006.

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• I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

  Elton John

  Half, Want, Littles

  Interview With Paul Gambaccini, www.rollingstone.com. August 16, 1973.

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• I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.

  Billy Joel

  House

  "Pop quiz classic: Billy Joel". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. 2001.

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• I don't have 'The Jerry Springer Show'. I just got 'Family Feud', but some of them families, when they lose, man, they have some real conversations with each other back behind that wall, but I've never been involved in any of them.

  Steve Harvey

  Wall, Real, Men

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• I wish I'd done 'Dumb and Dumber.' I was offered the part, but I don't think I'd have been better than Jeff Daniels was. Another film I wish I'd done was 'Jerry Maguire.'

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, Dumb, Wish

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• I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Sports, Football, Names

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• I can watch an episode of Jerry Seinfeld, and by the end, I'm just walking around my house, you know, talking like Jerry Seinfeld. 'What is that? What are you doing? Who is it? What's going' - you know, I just had that thing, when I grew up, I'd just start talking like people. You know, I always had that.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Talking, People, House

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• I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

  Larry David

  Couple, Hook, Firsts

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". The Laugh Factory Magazine Interview, www.laughfactory.com. April 1994.

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• I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.

  Reba McEntire

  Song, Play, Singing

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.

  Trey Parker

  Comedy, Realizing, Turds

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• Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.

  Al Davis

  Decision, Way, Honest

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• Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.

  Johnny Thunders

  Song, Stay Strong, Clubs

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• I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.

  Darren Flutie

  Football, Thinking, Nfl

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• Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me.

  Ronnie Lott

  Art, Example, Monk

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• Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.

  Joe Shuster

  Artist, Problem, Slam

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• Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.

  Joe Shuster

  Technique, Stories, Scripts

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• Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on-smiling.

  Shalom Auslander

  Honesty, Passion, Optimism

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• I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

  Wanda Jackson

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• Elaine: Ugh, I hate people. Jerry: Yeah, they're the worst.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hate, People, Ugh

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• Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'

  James Wolcott

  Looks, Comedy, Adam

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• Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.

  James Wolcott

  Fence Post, Envelopes, Skinny

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• We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

  Paul Simon

  Inspirational, Dance, Kids

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• I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids.

  Kid Rock

  Dad, Kids, People

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• My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

  Pat Robertson

  Guests, Blame, Said

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• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  Harlan Coben

  Fiction, Crime, Crime Fiction

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