Jerry Lewis Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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

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.

Jerry Lewis

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

Jerry Lewis

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Jerry Lewis

Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.

Jerry Lewis

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

Jerry Lewis

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

Jerry Lewis

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.

Jerry Lewis

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?'

Jerry Lewis

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.

Jerry Lewis

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.

Jerry Lewis

I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.

Jerry Lewis

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.

Jerry Lewis

I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.

Jerry Lewis

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

Jerry Lewis

I'm sour at times.

Jerry Lewis

Red is uplifting.

Jerry Lewis

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.

Jerry Lewis

When I'm working, I stay in ICU in any hospital that will get me a bed.

Jerry Lewis

Marilyn Monroe was a fabulous dame - fabulous.

Jerry Lewis

I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off.

Jerry Lewis

When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.

Jerry Lewis

I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.

Jerry Lewis

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.

Jerry Lewis

When I arrived in Las Vegas, I felt I was embraced by it.

Jerry Lewis

I don't talk about anything negative.

Jerry Lewis

My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

Jerry Lewis

I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.

Jerry Lewis

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.

Jerry Lewis

I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'

Jerry Lewis

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.

Jerry Lewis

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

Jerry Lewis

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.

Jerry Lewis

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

Jerry Lewis

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.

Jerry Lewis

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.

Jerry Lewis

You think about getting old, but when you get there, it's not what you thought it would be.

Jerry Lewis