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
nice want remembered
I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.
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.
house want pity
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
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.
running film
Make film, shoot film, run film. Do something. Make film. Shoot anything.
hurt pain adrenaline
When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
thinking doors keys
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.'
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.
thinking views talking
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.
cutting thinking people
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.
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.
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.
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.