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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. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#comic #could #dramatic #fool #get

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. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#cement #clay #comedians #coming #courts

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. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#best #best time #condition #fortunes #gambling

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

#common #common sense #door #education #else

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

#comics #door #enough #get #give

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

#audience #away #cartoons #case #children

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#ambition #book #going #happens #least

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

#government #how #inner #know #old

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

— Jerry Lewis

#am #because #genius #hate #i

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform. ↗

— Juliette Lewis

#five #i #perform #six #wanted