Jerry Lewis Quotes

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance.

All I know is just how to make people laugh.

I was destined to make people laugh.

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.

I like the sound of laughter. I was the guy in the group of friends that would always make the friends laugh. And everyone was like, 'You should do stand up,' so I gave it a shot, and ta-da! They were right.

I'll do anything to get the laugh. I love it.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

I made a living out of being a class clown.

There's an art to comedy.

I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

People thought I was funny, so I kind of took entertaining for granted... it was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.

I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh.

My job is to make people laugh.

I don't usually eulogise about people, but I saw Russell Brand doing stand-up before he was really high profile. I didn't really know what to expect but I laughed until my belly ached.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the biggest, juiciest laughs, and then leave.