Jerry Lewis Quotes

You can't just be crass without being witty. Angry crass is horrible.

Respectability offends my taste.

What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

I tell it like it is, but I don't voice my opinion unless it's asked for.

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

You know how it's almost impossible for kids to not say what they think? That's me. I have to make the conscious effort to be situationally appropriate.

If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now.

Saying the “wrong” thing, a purposefully offensive or demonstrably false thing, has become, for the disaffected, a mark of integrity.

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.

I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said on the Internet.

I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.

Everything is offensive, so I'm enjoying the fact that I'm anti-kind. You've got to go out and just speak your mind. It needs to be heard.

My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you get wiser.

I like to make fun of serious matters.

It is part of my job description to be offensive.

Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn't help it! As you get older, you're more guarded, but that's a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others.