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Jerry Lewis
American
Comedian
Born:
Mar 16
,
1926
Because
Love
Me
People
Think
You
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I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.
Jerry Lewis
Will
Tell
Entertainer
Never
Audience
Years
Expect
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
Day
You
Yourself
World
Once
Wildest
Alive
Laugh
Look
Another
Around
Years
Provoke
Laboratory
Get
Either
Public
Keep
I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.
Jerry Lewis
Work
Respect
Country
Critics
Had
Greatest
Brains
American
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 critics.
Jerry Lewis
Work
Me
People
Negative
Seen
Before
Think
Ran
Out
Tell
Critics
See
About
Bothers
Stuff
Print
Because
Against
Cut
Film
I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.
Jerry Lewis
Funny
Smart
Down
See
Outfit
Some
Hot
Like
Felt
How
Am
Anything
Wardrobe
Turned
Compete
Bring
Need
I expect people that come to the studio to work to come with the same energy I come with. If I see less than that, I get very strong about, if you want to do this, come with a sense of pride, come with eagerness and anxiety.
Jerry Lewis
Work
You
People
Anxiety
Strong
Pride
Sense
Energy
See
About
Studio
Come
Very
Expect
Than
Get
Same
Want
Less
Eagerness
My family was as absolute as the work.Family was first always.
Jerry Lewis
Family
First
Absolute
Always
When you're doing a different kind of film, you have to bring a different kind of attitude; you have to bring a different kind of concentration.
Jerry Lewis
Attitude
You
Kind
Concentration
Doing
Different
Different Kind
Film
Bring
You can ask me anything you want. That doesn't mean I'm going to answer you.
Jerry Lewis
Me
You
Answer
Going
Want
Anything
Mean
Ask
I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have, and I never will.
Jerry Lewis
Will
Tell
Never
Audience
Expect
I'm an unusual man. I know that.
Jerry Lewis
Man
Know
Unusual
When I arrived in Las Vegas, I felt I was embraced by it.
Jerry Lewis
Embraced
Vegas
Felt
Arrived
Las Vegas
I was once six feet tall, but at 85, I'm now five feet four.
Jerry Lewis
Once
Feet
Tall
Five
Six
Now
Four
Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'
Jerry Lewis
Life
Me
Business
Hey
Attention
Look
Getting
Whole
I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.
Jerry Lewis
Life
Me
You
My Life
Think
Changes
Has-Been
About
Through
Know
Am
Been
Curious
Going
Happen
Happening
Next
Helped
Enjoyed
Watching
I want to know why the government of this country can't take care of the people who are keeping us safe?
Jerry Lewis
Government
People
Care
Country
Take
Take Care
Know
Safe
Want
Us
Who
Why
Keeping
I believe when you go out there, you have a responsibility to deliver. I have old-fashioned thinking when I'm out there.
Jerry Lewis
You
Responsibility
Believe
Thinking
Out
Deliver
Go
Old-Fashioned
Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.
Jerry Lewis
Me
You
Woman
Rubs
Project
Kind
Seeing
Wrong
Comic
Just
Aggression
If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.
Jerry Lewis
Day
You
Stage
Pain
Stay
Had
Performing
Hours
I will not say anything negative about the president of the United States. I don't do that. And I don't allow my children to do that.
Jerry Lewis
Negative
Will
President
Say
States
About
Allow
Children
Anything
United
United States
I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.
Jerry Lewis
Me
Nine
Never
Allowed
Within
Always
Been
Child
Die
Really
Ever
Basically
For a comic to put a public performance in jeopardy for a snickering little laugh - no, no, no, I don't believe in it.
Jerry Lewis
Believe
Laugh
Put
Performance
Comic
Public
Little
Jeopardy
Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.
Jerry Lewis
Sad
You
Would
Would-Be
Highs
Performers
Most
Commentary
Stop
Low
Used
Lows
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.
Jerry Lewis
Comedy
Nothing
Dramatic
Laugh
More
Feel
Because
Audience
Than
Get
Done
Them
You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she's brilliant. She's a brilliant entertainer, she's a brilliant lady, and she's a wonderful human being, and the community doesn't like it.
Jerry Lewis
You
Wonderful
Human Being
Brilliant
Community
Difficult
Entertainer
Like
Know
She
Because
Human
Being
Lady
Want
Barbra Streisand
Why
Streisand
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
Time
Thought
Think
Terms
Always
Lot
Left
Want
Much
Many
Even
Things
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