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John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) professionally known as Jack Lemmon, was 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 (for which he won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple and its sequel The Odd Couple II (and other frequent collaborations with Odd Couple co-star Walter Matthau), Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Academy Award for Best Actor), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing, Glengarry Glen Ross, Tuesdays with Morrie, Grumpy Old Men, and Grumpier Old Men.

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

Quit, Quitting, Run, Running, Truck

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.

Cutting, Dog, Friendship, Hidden, Inching, Saw

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

Come, Doe, Easy, Worthwhile

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

Car, Humble, Humility, Phone, Phones

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.

Acting, Actor, Emotional, Emotionally, Intellectual, Satisfy

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.

Drama, Enough, Hard Life, Harder, Write, Writing

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

Amount, Damn, Opinion, Somebody, Success

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.

Acting, Gets, Passion, Respect, Think, Thinking

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

Crosby, Cutting, Oscar, Oscars, Win, Winning

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

Career, Careers, Coincidence, Full, Nothing, Remarkable

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

Desire, God, Movies, Thank God, Theater, Training

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

Acting, Actor, Audience, Inspirational, Motivational, Satisfy

Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is saying. We listen to what they mean. And what they mean is often quite apart from the words. When you see a scene between two actors that goes really well you can be sure they're not listening to each other - they're feeling what the other person is trying to get at. Know what I mean?

Apart, Feeling, Feelings, Mean, Two

I have never lost a total passion for my work.

Lost, Passion, Total, Work

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.

Character, Moon, Simple, Thing, Whole, Zero

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.

Character, Correct, Frustration, Frustrations, People, See

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

Actor, Actors, Deserve, Deserves, Money

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

Back, Down, Elevator, Elevators, Matter, Successful

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

Everything, Matter, Passion, Think, Thinking, Worthwhile

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

Failure, Fear, Fear Of Failure, Seldom, Stops

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