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Jack Lemmon quotes

Ocupation: Actor

Life: February 8, 1925 - June 27, 2001

Birthday: February 8

Death: June 27

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Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Topics: Death, Ends, Endless Love, Everlasting Love, Meaningful Death

quote no matter how successful you get always send the elevator back down jack lemmon Quotes

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Topics: Acting, Needs, Actors, Best Acting, Acting From Actors

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

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Fear Of Failure

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.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Drama, Writing, Comedy, Good Drama

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

Topics: Sports, Dirty, Golf, Humorous Golf, Golf Ball

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.

Topics: Best Friend, Brother, Actors, Lost Someone

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.

Topics: Passion, Thinking, Acting

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?"

Topics: Lying, Golf, Feet

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

Topics: Golf, Play, Rehearsal

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

Topics: Doe, Easy, Worthwhile

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Actors, Deserve

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.

Topics: Emotional, Intellectual, Acting

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

Topics: Careers, Coincidence, Remarkable

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.

Topics: Friendship, Dog, Cutting

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

Topics: Successful, Matter, Elevators

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

Topics: Humble, Phones, Car, Stay Humble

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.

Topics: Love, Reading, Littles

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?

Topics: Mean, Two, Feelings

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

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

Topics: Death, Dying, Sin, Sins Not

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.

Topics: Zero, Character, Men

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

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

Topics: Speak, Inherit The Wind

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.

Topics: Character, Frustration, People

I have never lost a total passion for my work.

Topics: Passion, Lost

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

source: - 1986 In Newsweek, 5 May.

Topics: Running, Quitting, Truck

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.

Topics: Cutting, Winning, Oscars, Crosby

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.

Topics: Baby, Sex, Spring

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.

Topics: Funny, Music, Morning, Sorry Men, Irish Beer

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

Topics: Opinion, Damn, Amount

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.

Topics: Dream, Choices, Enough

Everything that is truly worthwhile - I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is.

Topics: Passion, Thinking, Matter

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.'

Topics: Teacher, Jobs, Character, Vantage Point, Acting Teachers

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.

source: - Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

Topics: Mother, Children, Father

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