Jack Lemmon Quotes

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

Jack Lemmon

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• For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Think
  • Dirty

• There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Want
  • Choice
  • Options

• I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Up
  • Question
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• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • American
  • Debate

• There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Real
  • Violence

• My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Parents
  • Brother
  • Lawyer

• I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • World
  • Employer

• To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • School
  • Kid

• I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Problems

• 'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Want
  • Me
  • Question

• The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Way
  • Best
  • Meditation

• If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • You
  • Give

• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Matter
  • Frustrating
  • Gets

• Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • World
  • Friends
  • New

• Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Day
  • Beginning

• Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Future
  • Earth
  • Present

• You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Movie
  • Script

• It is a privilege that women fancy me, but I cannot sustain the chocolate boy image forever. I don't want to end up being known, like the late veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan was, as the king of romance.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Women
  • Romance
  • Chocolate Boy

• I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Day
  • Play
  • Guitar

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

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Hamlet