Jack Lemmon Quotes
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.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
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He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
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I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
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I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and Bernadette. What I realized, though, is that I can't sound like that, and what makes their performances magical is their uniqueness.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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.
