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I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

~Jerry Lewis

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

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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.

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I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

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A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an affection for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who grow up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an example for me.

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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.

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If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.

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

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I will do whatever is necessary to make better the stupidity on my part - and therefore go after those who are acting stupid themselves. It's not popular. You don't make friends when you do that. And I couldn't care less.

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Turning 90 is not for sissies.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: March 16th, 1926

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