Jack Lemmon Movie Quotes & Lines – 47 Classics (+ Audio)

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1 How many nurses do you see? -Two... Can we afford 'em?

As Harry Hinkle in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

2 You'll be careful, won't you, Doc? -I'd better be because I'm on parole.

As Harry Hinkle in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

3 Shouldn't handicapped have two p's? -Two p's? I typed it myself, trying to save a little money. After all, it's a nonprofit organization.

Walter Matthau as Whiplash Willie Gingrich; Jack Lemmon as Harry Hinkle in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

4 I'm calling the Sheriff a hyena. What do you like with it? Vile, corrupt, unscrupulous, depraved? -Yeah. And in that order.

Walter Matthau as Walter Burns; Jack Lemmon as Hildy Johnson in The Front Page (1974)

5 Look at that! I'm not even pretty. -They don't care, just so long as you're wearing a skirt. It's like waving a red flag in front of a bull.

Jack Lemmon as Jerry; Tony Curtis as Joe in Some Like It Hot

6 And where did you get that phony accent? Nobody talks like that.

As Jerry in Some Like It Hot

7 Of all the miserable broads. I don't know what I ever saw in her in the first place. Cooks like a pig and smokes in bed!

As Harry Hinkle in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

8 And what are you doin' walkin' around? -Trying to get some circulation in my legs. Do you mind?

Walter Matthau as Whiplash Willie Gingrich; Jack Lemmon as Harry Hinkle in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

9 Funny thing about marriage. It's like being in the army. Everybody knocks it, but you'd be surprised how many guys reenlist.

As Harry Hinkle in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

10 And now, for the most death-defying feat ever attempted by a man who just got out of a wheelchair.

As Harry Hinkle in The Fortune Cookie (1966)

Jack Lemmon Movie Quotes & Lines – 47 Classics (+ Audio)

1 How many nurses do you see? -Two... Can we afford 'em?

2 You'll be careful, won't you, Doc? -I'd better be because I'm on parole.

3 Shouldn't handicapped have two p's? -Two p's? I typed it myself, trying to save a little money. After all, it's a nonprofit organization.

4 I'm calling the Sheriff a hyena. What do you like with it? Vile, corrupt, unscrupulous, depraved? -Yeah. And in that order.

5 Look at that! I'm not even pretty. -They don't care, just so long as you're wearing a skirt. It's like waving a red flag in front of a bull.

6 And where did you get that phony accent? Nobody talks like that.

7 Of all the miserable broads. I don't know what I ever saw in her in the first place. Cooks like a pig and smokes in bed!

8 And what are you doin' walkin' around? -Trying to get some circulation in my legs. Do you mind?

9 Funny thing about marriage. It's like being in the army. Everybody knocks it, but you'd be surprised how many guys reenlist.

10 And now, for the most death-defying feat ever attempted by a man who just got out of a wheelchair.

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