Quotes by Jerry Lewis

About Jerry Lewis:

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He originally created an act with Dean Martin in 1946 (see Martin and Lewis) which performed in nightclubs and later appeared in a series of comedy films for Paramount Pictures before the two men went their separate ways in 1956. For more than forty years, Lewis also hosted the Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual Labor Day Telethon and was the national chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many p...

Jerry Lewis

It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.

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

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

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...

Jerry Lewis

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

Jerry Lewis

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some peo...

Jerry Lewis

From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling...

Jerry Lewis

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 tinglin...

Jerry Lewis

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

Jerry Lewis

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

Jerry Lewis

People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about...

Jerry Lewis

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

Jerry Lewis

Author Bio

  • NameJerry Lewis
  • DescriptionAmerican comedian, actor, film producer, writer and film director
  • BornMarch 16, 1926
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Producer; Actor; Film Actor; Film Director; Singer-songwriter; Writer; Screenwriter; Musician; Composer
  • AwardsJean Hersholt Humanitarian Award