Some Like It Hot, Nobody's perfect.

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

I think whatever you do, if you are going to do it 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,

[For his part, Lemmon says he's proud to work with Scott, and hopes to do it again.] Any actor that ever works with George C. Scott is going to say, 'I'd be very happy working with Mr. Scott for the rest of my life,' ... And I feel that way, I really do.

We're doing very serious stuff, ... But some of the stuff we pull with each other in between is not serious at all, and also not repeatable.

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.