Top 99 Lemmon Quotes
#1. My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon.
Dick Van Patten
#2. Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.
John Heard
#3. I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.
Tim DeKay
#4. But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.
Evan Jones
#5. Jack Lemmon is my best friend and he's a very wonderful actor. A very talented, very funny man. A lovely man. We're like brothers! We are gifts to each other. He's such a fun personality. There will only ever be one Jack Lemmon.
Tony Curtis
#6. I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being.
Steve Coogan
#8. I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.
Jeff Daniels
#9. Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.
Steve Guttenberg
#10. Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
Hank Azaria
#11. I'm a huge fan of 'The Odd Couple,' yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.
David Alan Basche
#12. I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.
Richard Schiff
#13. I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.
Kim Basinger
#14. 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
#16. The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#17. The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#18. In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#19. I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#20. Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#21. 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
#22. Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
Jack Lemmon
#23. She (Kamila Sidiqi) believes strongly that Afghans can shape their own future using business to create a healthy economy that offers opportunity and a chance at a better and more peaceful tomorrow."
~in other words capitalism!(my words)
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#24. She felt like backing into his crotch and pressing her back into his chest. And then maybe rubbing against him a little.
Jessica Lemmon
#25. My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#27. 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
#28. Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#29. How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?
Jack Lemmon
#30. A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#32. I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#33. If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon
#34. Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#35. 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
#36. In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#37. It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#38. No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#39. 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
#40. No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#41. wanted to know what war was like for those who had been left behind: the women who managed to keep going even as their world fell apart.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#42. I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.
Jack Lemmon
#43. Obviously, she thought, angling her head up to the second story, where filthy windows clouded with dust and decay seemed to transform into yawning faces with soulless eyes.
Jessica Lemmon
#44. This is an opportunity for failure as much as it is one to succeed. Do not block out the voices of opposition, study them and defeat their words and prejudices through brilliant action.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#46. Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#47. Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#48. I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#49. 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
#50. It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#51. Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#53. Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh ... I'm a man.
Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
Billy Wilder
#55. 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
#56. Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#57. Snow fell rapidly outside Tag's windows, but between them it was Florida in July.
Jessica Lemmon
#58. If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#59. Whatever you say, sweetheart." He sent her a wink, a devilish one, the same one he no doubt used to sear the panties off his dates.
Jessica Lemmon
#60. Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#61. Don't tell people what you're going to do, or what kind of person you are. Just show them.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#62. What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#63. He drew in an answering breath, and she waited to hear the quip, the joke, the dab of levity for the most intense moment they'd ever shared. But he only dropped his head into the crook of her neck and laid his mouth over her leaping pulse as they found their unhurried rhythm in the dark.
Jessica Lemmon
#64. My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.
Jack Lemmon
#65. I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#66. Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#67. A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#68. Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
Jack Lemmon
#69. When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#70. Everything that is truly worthwhile - I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is.
Jack Lemmon
#71. 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
#72. 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
#74. What I found in Kabul was a sisterhood unlike any I had seen before, marked by empathy, laughter, courage, curiosity about the world, and above all a passion for work.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#75. Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.
Jack Lemmon
#76. No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.
Jack Lemmon
#77. The mission has not yet run its course. Don't limit your actions in pursuit of success. Take a measured course and a wide berth within your lines of operation. Show us all what you are capable of.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#78. The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#79. I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
Jack Lemmon
#80. 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
#81. Amber wanted to see special operations open to women and she believed they all should have a shot at going to Ranger School but only if there were no shortcuts, no dumbing down of any of the requirements, the same standards for everyone. And everyone would have the chance to meet them. T
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#82. I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.
Jack Lemmon
#83. I have never lost a total passion for my work.
Jack Lemmon
#84. You weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you were born with an entire cutlery drawer in there!
Jessica Lemmon
#86. 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
#87. We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#88. In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#89. Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#90. Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
Jack Lemmon
#91. In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#92. I brought my daughter today because I wanted her to know what a hero was," the woman said, holding the hand of a little girl. "And I wanted her to know girls could be heroes, too.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#93. I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.
Jack Lemmon
#94. Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#95. There are those times when a woman fears she is on the brink of extinction or that the dreams and wants she had for her life are endangered. It is then she must declare herself a refuge and take whatever measures to preserve her natural elements."--Portion of the Sea
Christine Lemmon
#96. 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
#97. There was more to say, but he couldn't find the words. More to say about how different she was, how different she was making him. How differently the time passed whenever they were together. (72%)
Jessica Lemmon
#98. This was a mental game as much as a physical challenge, designed to reinforce the fact that staying focused and motivated is absolutely critical to mission success and basic survival in war.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#99. Never before have Christians been able to say that we have all the resources we need to reach every single person on the planet with the gospel, but we can today. There are no barriers standing in our way anymore - none, that is, except our own willingness.
Silus Lemmon
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