Quotes by Jack Lemmon - Page 1

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Death
Dying
Sin
Sins Not
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Death
Life
True Love
Sorry
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I have never lost a total passion for my work.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Lost
Passion
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How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Inherit The Wind
Knows
Speak
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Money
Actors
Deserve
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I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Golf
Play
Rehearsal
Tvs
Hamlet
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I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Crosby
Cutting
Oscars
Winning
Cut
Oscar
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Failure
Fear
Fear Of Failure
Stops
Seldom
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No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Elevators
Matter
Successful
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I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Running
Quitting
Truck
Run
Critic
Producer
Quit
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I don't think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Depended
Dishonest
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Car
Humble
Humility
Phones
Car Always Your
Stay
Phone
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Sports
Dirty
Golf
Golf Ball
Hard
Try
Ball
Wrong
Meet
New People
Picking
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My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Careers
Coincidence
Remarkable
Coincidences
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I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Desire
Thank God
Training
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Comedy
Direct
General
Successfully
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Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Doe
Easy
Worthwhile
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Inspirational
Motivational
Acting
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Everything that is truly worthwhile - I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Matter
Passion
Thinking
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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Funny
Good Morning
Music
Morning
Sorry
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Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Amount
Damn
Opinion
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In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Always Simple People
Chapter
Explain
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I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my caddie said, "Who cares?"
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Feet
Golf
Lying
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Apples
Compare
Drama
Fortunate
Pears
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If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Dream
Choices
Enough
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I think it's great fun sometimes when I am playing golf, just to give it a little uch, is to bet the other guy five bucks a hole or something like that.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Bucks
Bet
Great Fun
Hole
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I'll tell you God's truth: I think that this script that Neil has written - 'Odd Couple Two,' I think, is superior to the original one - to the first one.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Couple
Odd
Original
First One
Neil
Script
Superior
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I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Best Friend
Smile
Actors
Brother
Closest
Damn
Lost Ones
Remarkable
Closest Friend
Human Being
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Comedy
Drama
Enough
Good Drama
Hard
Hard Life
Writing
Life Good Enough
Much
Which
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Absolute
Dignified
Terribly
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People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Character
Frustration
People
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I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Children
Father
Mother
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how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motors. I tell you, it's a whole different sex! Joe: What are you afraid of? Nobody's asking you to have a baby.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Baby
Sex
Spring
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If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Frustrated
Sensible
Uncomfortable
Me Never Person
Amazingly
Bright
Me Person Never
Horribly
Occurred
Quit
Sensible Person
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I had already played a lead on Broadway before I ever did a film. I had had three, four seasons of stock with good, fat parts, good supporting and leading parts. And I had done, oh, God, over 400 live TV shows.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Broadway
Done
Film
Live Tv
Seasons
Three
Tv Shows
God Good Done
Tv
Fat
Did
Played
Before
Oh
Ever
Lead
Over
Oh God
Parts
Stock
Supporting
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I think whatever you do, if you are going to do well or even if you don't do it well, you have to have a passion for it, and I am passionate about it. I love it. I respect it and it gets me. I get off on acting.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Acting
Passion
Thinking
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When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it -I absolutely just love it.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Love
Justice
Reading
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When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Willing
Worried
Admit
Material
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Moved
Satisfying
Sequels
Theater
Wow
Love Always New
Continuous
Love New Always
Performance
Suddenly
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Humor
Fall
Luck
Makeup
Particular
Sense Of Humor
Love Humor Great
Attracted
Great Part
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Ability
Audience
Emotional
Intellectual
Naked
Vulnerable
Actor
Front
Himself
Level
Reach
Satisfy
Stark
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Acting
Emotional
Intellectual
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It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Zero
Character
Moon
Simple
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She has never messed up a single take yet. Recently I was in a scene and there was a table covered with a cloth. When the director said cut, I saw a black nose and two paws inching out from under the cloth. She had hidden there without making a sound until we were done with the scene. She wanted to be nearer to me.
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Friendship
Cutting
Dog
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Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story from that vantage point. If an actor represses large aspects of their personality, they will have a severely limited range and castability. Great actors cultivate effortless access to their subpersonalities. Many acting teachers call this 'freeing your instrument.'
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Jobs
Teacher
Character
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Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is saying. We listen to what they mean. And what they mean is often quite apart from the words. When you see a scene between two actors that goes really well you can be sure they're not listening to each other - they're feeling what the other person is trying to get at. Know what I mean?
Jack Lemmon / Actor
Feelings
Mean
Two
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