American - Comedian | March 16, 1926 -
I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have, and I never will.
Jerry Lewis
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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.
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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?'
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Turning 90 is not for sissies.
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You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.
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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.
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I'm an unusual man. I know that.
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I don't talk about anything negative.
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Marilyn Monroe was a fabulous dame - fabulous.
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When I arrived in Las Vegas, I felt I was embraced by it.
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I happen to believe in the human condition so strongly that I don't have to make up games to play with people. Here's what I think: If it's good, let's go for it. If it needs work to be better, let's work on it.
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Billy Crystal, Steve Martin do wonderful things.
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