Lemmon Quotes & Sayings

No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

This is an opportunity for failure as much as it is one to succeed. Do not block out the voices of opposition, study them and defeat their words and prejudices through brilliant action. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

What I found in Kabul was a sisterhood unlike any I had seen before, marked by empathy, laughter, courage, curiosity about the world, and above all a passion for work. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Giving birth to a baby does not make you an infant. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

There is a beginning, middle and end to every woman's life. But once a woman arrives at what she thinks might be her end, all she must do is reach deep down into her innermost depths and there she will find a new beginning. A woman is hardy as a perennial flower and deep as the sea." --Whisper from the Ocean — Christine Lemmon

Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them. — John Heard

But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon. — Evan Jones

Lily?"

She couldn't see his face, but she knew his eyes were on her. She could feel them.

A beat passed. Then another. He flicked the flashlight on, his eyes zooming in on her mouth. "Don't suppose you're scared enough of the dark to leave."

She shook her head. "I don't suppose you're planning on leaving me on my own."

A smile, then, "You might cheat." He tugged their linked hands and leaned the slightest bit closer.

"True," she breathed, mirroring his movement. "I wouldn't trust you if our roles were reversed." Inches from his face, she admired the curve of his top lip. "What are you doing, Black?"

"I think," he whispered back, his warm breath fanning over her lips, "I'm going to have to kiss you, McIntire. — Jessica Lemmon

Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step up and help them make their country safer, their government cleaner and their economy stronger. They are disappointed because the international community has done too little, not too much. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business. — Hank Azaria

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. — Jack Lemmon

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

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

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin? — Jack Lemmon

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. — Jack Lemmon

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

My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon. — Dick Van Patten

We'd never miss Alex's retirement. No matter how you feel about us being here."

Pompous prick. That was the exact reason Reese bounced his fist off Hayes's face all those years ago. He flexed his hand with the temptation to do it now too. Smarmy dickweed.

"Alex is a good man." Merina stroked Reese's arm, bringing his temper down a notch. "I'm sure he can see exactly what you are trying to accomplish by being here. If you'll excuse us." In a stage whisper, she added, "I'm going to sneak out of here for a moment with Reese. You remember how hard it was to keep your hands off him, I'm sure. — Jessica Lemmon

The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I remember is telling your father, 'That's it! Never again!'" That's why I'm an only child. — Jack Lemmon

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon. — Billy Wilder

I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation. — Richard Schiff

My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University of Maryland's University College, bringing me along to do homework while she studied to get the degree she hoped would offer her and me greater opportunities. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

This is why they don't want women here. These guys spend years getting trained to become Green Berets, they test themselves physically, mentally, and every place in between, and someone thinks that a couple weeks of training is any kind of equivalent - that we deserve anything close to the accolades that these guys get? We are no better than fresh-off-the-boat privates right now. No way in hell we are even close to what they do." And — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I'm a huge fan of 'The Odd Couple,' yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too. — David Alan Basche

In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Dying is not a sin. Not living is. — Jack Lemmon

Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I'm a huge fan of Jack Lemmon, he was someone who managed to tread that line between comedy and tragedy and sometimes give very big performances, but they were never over-demonstrative and they were never not based on a kind of real truthful human being. — Steve Coogan

Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

There are those times when a woman fears she is on the brink of extinction or that the dreams and wants she had for her life are endangered. It is then she must declare herself a refuge and take whatever measures to preserve her natural elements."--Portion of the Sea — Christine Lemmon

I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business. — Kim Basinger

Be amazing, because you are. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I think entrepreneurs are born and not created, and so I think you see a lot of similarities among entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. Their backdrop may be very different, but their drive to create a business and to create jobs remains very much the same, whether it's in Silicon Valley or Kandahar or Kabul. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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. — Jack Lemmon

You weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you were born with an entire cutlery drawer in there! — Jessica Lemmon

Mom. Can I?" Mom. — Jessica Lemmon

Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well known and often cited: Today, Afghans lucky enough to live in secure regions can go to school, women may work in offices, and the burqa is no longer mandatory. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

There was more to say, but he couldn't find the words. More to say about how different she was, how different she was making him. How differently the time passed whenever they were together. (72%) — Jessica Lemmon

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

Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go. — Jeff Daniels

I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here. — Tim DeKay

Say my name."

"No." She tipped her head up, her breath sawing out of her lungs. "Don't stop, please."

He languidly stroked her. "I won't stop, but I won't take you there unless you say it."

Her voice locked in her throat.

He stroked into her again at the same time giving her the pressure she desired with his thumb. "I have all night. — Jessica Lemmon

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama. — Steve Guttenberg

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

I have never lost a total passion for my work. — Jack Lemmon

He drew in an answering breath, and she waited to hear the quip, the joke, the dab of levity for the most intense moment they'd ever shared. But he only dropped his head into the crook of her neck and laid his mouth over her leaping pulse as they found their unhurried rhythm in the dark. — Jessica Lemmon

Brave young women complete heroic acts everyday, with no one bearing witness. This was a chance to even the ledger, to share one small story the made the difference between starvation and survival for the families whose lives it changed. I wanted to pull the curtain back for readers on a place foreigners know more for its rocket attacks and roadside bombs than its countless quiet feats of courage. And to introduce them to the young women like Kamila Sidiqi who will go on. No matter what. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

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

A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Snow fell rapidly outside Tag's windows, but between them it was Florida in July. — Jessica Lemmon

This was a mental game as much as a physical challenge, designed to reinforce the fact that staying focused and motivated is absolutely critical to mission success and basic survival in war. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

She (Kamila Sidiqi) believes strongly that Afghans can shape their own future using business to create a healthy economy that offers opportunity and a chance at a better and more peaceful tomorrow."
~in other words capitalism!(my words) — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

She felt like backing into his crotch and pressing her back into his chest. And then maybe rubbing against him a little. — Jessica Lemmon

You're killing me in this proper little suit," he said, skating a heated look over her shirt. "My place or yours?"

She swallowed thickly, the hand against his chest beginning to sweat. "I-I'm busy."

"You're gonna be," he said, smiling. "Need to know what bed you're gonna be in, though. Bringing my A game."

"Don't you think - ?"

"About you underneath me? Only every other minute. Now answer me, or else I'll throw you on the nearest desk."

Heat burst onto her cheeks. He noticed.

"Oh, really?" He smiled down at her. — Jessica Lemmon

I brought my daughter today because I wanted her to know what a hero was," the woman said, holding the hand of a little girl. "And I wanted her to know girls could be heroes, too. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh ... I'm a man.
Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
— Billy Wilder

How she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motors. I tell you, it's a whole different sex! Joe: What are you afraid of? Nobody's asking you to have a baby. — Jack Lemmon

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor. — Jack Lemmon

Merina gave Gwyneth a saucy wink and snatched a cube of cheese off Gwyneth's plate and ate it. She sucked on the tip of her thumb in what had to be the sexiest move Reese had ever seen. "Mmm. Thank you. I know that wasn't mine, but I saw it and just had to have it. You know what that's like. Try the crab bites. To die for. — Jessica Lemmon

Whatever you say, sweetheart." He sent her a wink, a devilish one, the same one he no doubt used to sear the panties off his dates. — Jessica Lemmon

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

Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The mission has not yet run its course. Don't limit your actions in pursuit of success. Take a measured course and a wide berth within your lines of operation. Show us all what you are capable of. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon