Jerry Lewis Quotes & Sayings

“I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.”

“Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.”

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

“I've had great success being a total idiot.”

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

“I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.”

“I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”