Jack Lemmon Quotes

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.

The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.

She was a genius at listening.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

If you ask the right questions, you learn a lot about people.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That's how you achieve empathy. It's how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world.

I'm really good at saying what other people are thinking and making it relatable.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them.

Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

I don't always know what I want to hear, but I'm gonna try and pull it out and sing it to you, and if you hear it the way I sing it to you, then a wall is broken.

Just to get the basic fundamentals and empathy - I think that's the most important thing to bring to it if you've acted in the past and are now a director: the empathy.