Zitat des Tages von Jerry Lewis:
Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
I've had great success being a total idiot.
Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.
Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.
I will not say anything negative about the president of the United States. I don't do that. And I don't allow my children to do that.
I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'
If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.
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.
I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.
When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.
I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
I'm sour at times.
Red is uplifting.
I will do whatever is necessary to make better the stupidity on my part - and therefore go after those who are acting stupid themselves. It's not popular. You don't make friends when you do that. And I couldn't care less.
When I'm working, I stay in ICU in any hospital that will get me a bed.
Marilyn Monroe was a fabulous dame - fabulous.
I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off.
When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.
I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.
I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor into an arena where he can really stretch.
When I arrived in Las Vegas, I felt I was embraced by it.
I don't talk about anything negative.
My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.
I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.
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.
I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'
The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you do in a straight scene. It's much harder.
I get paid for what most kids get punished for.
The film I did with Bobby De Niro, 'The King of Comedy' - an awful lot came to me out of that movie because De Niro never allowed me any room to be crazy. If I had tried to play it the way I would normally play it and get hysterical, Bobby would punch me.
When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.
I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.
You think about getting old, but when you get there, it's not what you thought it would be.