"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

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“If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.”
“When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking, what they wanted to convey. If you do that, you might get something amazing.”
“For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.”
“A joke a day keeps the gloom away!”

Source : "Fictional character: The Joker". "Batman: The Movie", www.imdb.com. 1966.
“Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one's living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.”
“The thing I was most proud of about today's round was that on this course everybody is going to make mistakes, but sometimes it's hard to forget about it and let it go. After I made a double on 1, I was able to be patient and let it go and came back with birdies on 3 and 5. When I bogeyed 6, I was able to let it go and come back with a birdie on 8. I was able to let go of some bad shots and forget about it and move on.”
“Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.”
“If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.”

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