American - Comedian | March 16, 1926 -
Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.
Jerry Lewis
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Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.
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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.
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Going unnoticed has never been my strong suit.
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I've had great success being a total idiot.
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When you get a question like, 'Did you like meeting Her Majesty?' 'No, I thought she was a slob.' I mean, what are you going to say... The mischief comes into me when I'm doing a Q&A, I'm 9 years old again. I don't get mad. I do get offended.
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When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff.
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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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Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.
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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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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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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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