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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

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

#down #go #issue #life #quality

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

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

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A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#back #bit #brings #comedy #doing

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

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 never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#entertainer #expect #i #never #tell

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

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