Jack Lemmon Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

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

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

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

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

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

I have never lost a total passion for my work.

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

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?"

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

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