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
years audience entertainers
I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.
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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.
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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.
years laughing alive
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.
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I'm sitting there hearing him pick up my rhythm. And my beats, which are all mine, and a lot of people would love to have them, but it's tough, you either have them or you don't,
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For reasons unknown to us, he started firing indiscriminately -- first at two individuals who happened to be in the bathroom and then at all students and staff who passed by the outside of that bathroom door.
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My door is always open to any member who wishes to build consensus on reducing unnecessary spending. My preference is to consider any proposal in a thoughtful, deliberate manner rather than reading about it in the newspaper.
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We simply couldn't ignore the need to help. We already have the infrastructure in place,
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This remarkably successful effort will mean a lot to the tens of thousands of individuals and families who are fighting neuromuscular diseases.
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We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth ... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.
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It will take nothing less than a domestic Marshall Plan to rebuild our roads and utilities and homes and businesses.
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the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life.
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This is a national security issue; this is a national security bill. It's important to protect our ports from this kind of foreign involvement.
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I wrote the first page the day my partner died, ... I had to get some stuff down. I was really trying to handle the grief.