Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon IIIwas an American actor and musician. Lemmon was an eight time Academy Award nominee, with two wins. He starred in over 60 films, such as Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts, Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger, The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth8 February 1925
CityNewton, NC
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.
Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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.
I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.
Everything that is truly worthwhile - I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is.
I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
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.
I have never lost a total passion for my work.
We're doing very serious stuff, ... But some of the stuff we pull with each other in between is not serious at all, and also not repeatable.
We're doing very serious stuff. But some of the stuff we pull with each other in between is not serious at all, and also not repeatable.