American - Comedian | March 16, 1926 -
I think so much in time. I always have. Even at 20, I thought in terms of time, that I don't have a lot of time left. And I want to do so many things.
Jerry Lewis
TimeThinkThoughtWantAlwaysLeft
I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.
ChildMeDieAliveSaidWithin
The people at Columbia Pictures have been great, but I had to tell them, 'Please don't be nice to me. Just pay me.'
GreatPeopleMeBe NicePictures
A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.
LoveTimeVoiceYouFallSound
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.
GoodEyesWalkGoingWellHappens
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.
HeartYourselfPeopleControlYou
Red is uplifting.
RedUplifting
I go where the action is.
ActionGoWhere
I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.
TelevisionThingsBecauseLikeSome
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.
TelevisionWantActorAudienceWhere
I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.
ChildSayingToo MuchCircusNever
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.
MeRememberCareerI CanLos Angeles
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Jerry Lewis quotes