Jerry Lewis

I've had great success being a total idiot.

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

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?

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.

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.

I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.

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

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.

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

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.