List of Jerry Lewis Quotes

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.

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.

The Young Man Who's Had The Guggenheim Fortune Behind Him All His Life - He Can Hire All The Authorities On The Subject To Teach Him How To Do A Monologue, But He's Never Going To Have The Right Stuff To Pull It Off. If He Doesn't Walk Out Onstage Needing To Walk Out There, He Doesn't Have A Dream Of Doing Well.

Make Film, Shoot Film, Run Film. Do Something. Make Film. Shoot Anything.

Gambling Is Part Of The Human Condition. I Love It. I Have The Best Time Gambling. I've Been Winning Fortunes, And I've Been Losing Them.

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.

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.

If I've Learned Anything In The More Than 50 Years That I've Led Mda, It's That The Generosity Of The American People Knows No Bounds. I'm Sure That With Their Fellow Citizens In Such Dire Need, They'll Dig Deep And Do Everything They Can To Help. I'm Hopeful That Many People Will Be Willing To Make Two Phone Calls And Donate To Both Causes.

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.

I've Had The Greatest Respect For My Work In This Country By Americans. Critics Have No Brains.

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.'

Pity? You Don't Want To Be Pitied Because You're A Cripple In A Wheelchair? Stay In Your House!