Quotes by Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis

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

Creative

Film

Professors

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.

Children

Growing Up

Years

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.

Baby

Machines

Thinking

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

Adrenaline

Pain

Wonderful

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

Comedy

Men

Trouble

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.

Giving

Hands

Loyalty

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.

Laughing

People

Tables

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

Dream

Funny

Witty

For those who understand, no explaination is needed…For those who don’t, none will do.

Needed

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.

Fall

Taken

Two

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Blue

Born

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Cancer

Cartoon

Children

Comedy

Commitment

Common Sense

Country

Creative

Critics

Cutting

Dad

Doors

Dream

Entertainers

Eulogy

Facts

Fall

Fathers Day

Feelings

Fellow Man

Film

Funny

Gambling

Giving

Government

Growing Up

Guy

Hands

Hard Work

Hate

Hatred

Hilarious

Hope

Hot

House

Hurt

Idiot

Instinct

Keys

Kids

Know How

Laughing

Like You

Looks

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Quotes by Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

For those who understand, no explaination is needed…For those who don’t, none will do.

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