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Jack Lemmon: “There is a certain fear you get. ‘[M]aybe I can’t play it — well enough’. And when I get that feeling, instead of turning the part down, that will make me want to do it more. Because I don’t want to rationalize and and live with the fact that I turned it down because I was afraid. I would rather fail, frankly, than live with that one.”
1987 interview with French television re: “Some Like it Hot”
