Jack Lemmon Quotes

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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

  Funny, Music, Morning

  95 Copy quote

• No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.

  Jack Lemmon

  Successful, Matter, Elevators

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• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  Jack Lemmon

  Life, True Love, Death

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• Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.

  Jack Lemmon

  Doe, Easy, Worthwhile

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• Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

  Jack Lemmon

  Fear, Failure, Fear Of Failure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Opinion, Damn, Amount

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• If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

  Jack Lemmon

  Sports, Dirty, Golf

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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

  Drama, Writing, Hard Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Mean, Two, Feelings

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• Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

  Jack Lemmon

  Death, Sins Not, Dying

  "Fictional character: Jake Tremont". "Dad", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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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

  Dream, Choices, Enough

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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

  Best Friend, Brother, Lost Ones

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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• How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

  Jack Lemmon

  Speak, Inherit The Wind, Knows

  "Pals revisit Scopes in 'Inherit the Wind'". www.cnn.com. May 28, 1999.

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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

  Passion, Thinking, Matter

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• My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

  Jack Lemmon

  Careers, Coincidence, Remarkable

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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

  Teacher, Jobs, Character

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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

  Character, Frustration, People

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• I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

  Jack Lemmon

  Running, Quitting, Truck

  1986 In Newsweek, 5 May.

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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

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

  Jack Lemmon

  Humble, Humility, Phones

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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

  Passion, Thinking, Acting

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• Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

  Jack Lemmon

  Money, Actors, Deserve

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have never lost a total passion for my work.

  Jack Lemmon

  Passion, Lost

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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

  Emotional, Intellectual, Acting

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