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

Jerry Lewis Quotes

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

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

— Jerry Lewis

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

— 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 people saw us.

— 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 critics.

— Jerry Lewis

I have nothing against women. As a matter of fact there’s something about them that I love, but I just can’t put my finger on it.

— Jerry Lewis

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don’t have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

— 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 news. Keep them away from news on television.

— Jerry Lewis

I tell young comics, ‘Do you want this badly enough? It’s there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I’m going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.’

— Jerry Lewis

Make film, shoot film, run film. Do something. Make film. Shoot anything.

— Jerry Lewis

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

— 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

Pity? You don’t want to be pitied because you’re a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

— Jerry Lewis

If you’re an old pro, you know how well you’re doing when you’re doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you’re not doing well.

— Jerry Lewis

Don’t give me paper – I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that’s for life.

— Jerry Lewis

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

— Jerry Lewis

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

I don’t want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.

— Jerry Lewis

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

— Jerry Lewis
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