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We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

~Jerry Lewis

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

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I need the applause.

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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.

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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.'

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From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.

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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.

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When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff.

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

~Jerry Lewis

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: March 16th, 1926

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