188 Quotes by Jerry Lewis

When I'm working, I stay in ICU in any hospital that will get me a bed.

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.

I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have, and I never will.

I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.

Turning 90 is not for sissies.

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.

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.

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.

When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.