Jerry Lewis Zitate auf Englisch

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The beauty of love, as far as I'm concerned, is it makes you better. It makes you stronger. It gives you direction. It gives you understanding of what life is and what we've been given.

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I believe when you go out there, you have a responsibility to deliver. I have old-fashioned thinking when I'm out there.

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I got the 'Max Rose' script, and I fell in love with it. It just hit me. It was something that needed to be made.

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What happens at 90 is that I don't walk so good, my eyes are going, I can't hear well, and I'm getting all of the 90s residuals.

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I've never been more than 9 years old.

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This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?

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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.

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I make sure that I take good care of me.

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You can't hold comedy back, because it needs to be exposed.

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You see, the people that have a point of view and have an opinion and have some intellect are dangerous in the film community - they're dangerous.

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I need the applause.

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What's happened at 85 is I've lost my appetite. I used to be a little hog when I was young. But now I really don't seem to need it.

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Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

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The greatest thing I can remember in my whole career was the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey clowns asking me to appear with them at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1965.

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Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.

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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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That never stops. That's what drives you: the joy and excitement of doing what you love.

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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.

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Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.

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To ask a pratfall comedian, a dishes-in-the-face comic like me, to lay back and bring none of that stuff to the script because it doesn't call for it? That's tough.

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When you are debilitated, and you're very depressed, and you believe there's no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down.

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There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It's part of my psychosis.

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There's nothing more dramatic than the comedy I've done. Because the comedy I've done is to get to the audience, get them to feel it, or they won't laugh.

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I've raised my boys the old-fashioned way, with spankings, sending them upstairs if they misbehave at parties, the works. I believe discipline is the proof of love.

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If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.

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Going unnoticed has never been my strong suit.

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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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I like to watch all those shows that shouldn't be on the air - reality shows.

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I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.

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I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.

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I don't like any female comedians.

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Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.

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My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

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A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.

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I want to know why the government of this country can't take care of the people who are keeping us safe?

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When you're doing a different kind of film, you have to bring a different kind of attitude; you have to bring a different kind of concentration.

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