Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#na

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #na




I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented. ↗


— Huey Lewis


#cast #guarantee #i #i am #i can

What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell. ↗


— Jenifer Lewis


#her #houston #like #name #sell

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. ↗


— Jerry Lewis


#bigger #cancer #cell #country #cure

I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many people... I'm not so opinionated that I won't budge. ↗


— Jerry Lewis


#because #better #better sense #coming #found

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


— Jerry Lewis


#audience #because #doing #front #hurt

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


#anything #blue #came #censors #expecting

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. ↗


— Jerry Lewis


#been #buy #children #did #done

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

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


— Jerry Lewis


#am #because #genius #hate #i

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. ↗


— Jerry Lewis


#american spirit #around #becoming #contribution #esteem






back to top