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Top 25 Jack Lemmon Quotes (2024 Update)

Jack Lemmon Quote: “No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.”

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

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.”

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

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.”

3. “Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.”

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Jack Lemmon Quote: “I have never lost a total passion for my work.”

5. “I have never lost a total passion for my work.”

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “Everything that is truly worthwhile – I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is.”

7. “Everything that is truly worthwhile – I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is.”

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Jack Lemmon Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Jack Lemmon Quote: “Stay humble. Always answer your phone – no matter who else is in the car.”

10. “Stay humble. Always answer your phone – no matter who else is in the car.”

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.”

11. “If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.”

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “Dying is not a sin. Not living is.”

12. “Dying is not a sin. Not living is.”

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “Success is always somebody else’s opinion of you; but it doesn’t amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.”

13. “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

Jack Lemmon Quote: “If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.”

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

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Jack Lemmon Quote: “How do you know that God didn’t speak to Charles Darwin?”

16. “How do you know that God didn’t speak to Charles Darwin?”

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Jack Lemmon Quote: “I won’t quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.”

18. “I won’t quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.”

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “I’d rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.”

19. “I’d rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.”

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Jack Lemmon Quote: “I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.”

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

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.”

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

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “Nobody deserves this much money – certainly not an actor.”

23. “Nobody deserves this much money – certainly not an actor.”

— Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Jack Lemmon Quote: “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?””

25. “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

Jack Lemmon Quote: “My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.”

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

— Jack Lemmon

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