Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.
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.
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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.
Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
Jack Lemmon loved to play golf, but was horrible at it.
Jack Lemmon co-starred in ten movies with friend Walter Matthau.
In the 1996 movie My Fellow Americans, Jack Lemmon performed all of his own stunts.
"Baskin & Robbins 31 Flavors" named an ice cream flavor after Jack Lemmon. They called it the "Jack Lemmon" flavor.
Jack Lemmon won the "Connor Award." It was given to him by the brothers of the fraternity Phi Alpha Tau.
Jack Lemmon was a communications officer on the USS Lake Champlain in the Naval Reserve during WW II.
Jack Lemmon died almost one year after his famous co-star Walter Matthau. Jack died four days shy of the one year anniversary.
Jack Lemmon graduated from Harvard with a degree in "War Service Sciences."
In 1977, Jack Lemmon appeared with his son, Chris Lemmon, in the movie Airport '77.
In 1980, Jack Lemmon wrote the theme song for movie Tribute.
Jack Lemmon was married to Cynthia Stone from 1950 until 1956. He then married Felicia Farr and was married to her from 1962 until his death in 2001.
Jack Lemmon was 5'9" tall.
Jack Lemmon was on several radio soap operas in the 1940's.
Jack Lemmon was the first person to ever win the Academy Awards for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.
Jack Lemmon's father was the president of a doughnut company.
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