Jack Nicholson Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I'm against cronyism, and I had to learn that early on. Like, I don't have an entourage, because I saw the negative effects of those things.
I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.
Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.
There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell.
You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.
Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch.
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.
Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.
I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.
I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.
In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.
Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.
I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.
I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.
I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.
I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
It's difficult for people sometimes to recognise when they're happy. People sometimes seem to me to be afraid to be happy.