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.
—Jack Lemmon
Topics: Audiences
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
—Jack Lemmon
Topics: Failure
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
Topics: Authors & Writing, Writers, Writing
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