"I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains."
-Jerry Lewis
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"This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?"
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"I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already."
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"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."
-Jerry Lewis
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"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."
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"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."
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"Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success."
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"Fame and success are very different things."
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