Jerry Lewis Quotes

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

The one thing you can't buy, find, or create is time.

There are all these things I want to accomplish. We never know how long we're going to get.

I feel like I don't have a lot of time left.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

I'm very old. I haven't got time to be charming.

You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will.

The most sacred thing you can get is time. That's all people want on their death bed; that's what it's all about.

One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.

This whole thing about, 'Take it easy, you had a heart attack, you might die,' I don't have time to take it easy. I might go at any point now. So, I want to get as much done as I can!

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.