188 Quotes by Jerry Lewis

Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.

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

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.

There's nothing more dramatic than the comedy I've done. Because the comedy I've done is to get to the audience, get them to feel it, or they won't laugh.

You see, the people that have a point of view and have an opinion and have some intellect are dangerous in the film community - they're dangerous.

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.

I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.

Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.

The people at Columbia Pictures have been great, but I had to tell them, 'Please don't be nice to me. Just pay me.'