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I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute. — Jack Nicholson

I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny. — Jack Nicholson

If you think you're attractive, you're always attractive. — Jack Nicholson

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them. — Jack Nicholson

I'm not hard to get along with. — Jack Nicholson

Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Here comes Johnny! — Jack Nicholson

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. — Jack Nicholson

I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away
after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes — David James

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television. — Jack Nicholson

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead. — Jack Nicholson

But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon. — Evan Jones

I'm definitely still wild at heart. — Jack Nicholson

What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts. — Jack Nicholson

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you're bought and sold in the marketplace. — Jack Nicholson

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love. — Jack Nicholson

On the birth of his son after having had two daughters: I finally got it right. — Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him. — Greg Kinnear

I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star. — Ed Begley Jr.

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy. — Jack Nicholson

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. — Jack Nicholson

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot. — Jack Nicholson

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch. — Jack Nicholson

It's difficult for people sometimes to recognise when they're happy. People sometimes seem to me to be afraid to be happy. — Jack Nicholson

I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me. — Jack Nicholson

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts. — Charles Dance

Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them. — Jack Nicholson

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives. — Jack Nicholson

Acting is everybody's favorite second job. — Jack Nicholson

I'd give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer. — Jack Nicholson

Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else. — Jack Nicholson

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
-Jack Nicholson — Jack Nicholson

I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. — Jack Nicholson

That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people. — Jack Nicholson

Do you think God knew what he was doing when he created woman? — Jack Nicholson

Women
a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose? — Jack Nicholson

My mother never saw the irony of calling me a son of a bitch — Jack Nicholson

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do. — Jack Nicholson

This town needs an enema! — Jack Nicholson

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. — Jack Nicholson

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. — Jack Nicholson

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life. — Jack Nicholson

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point. — Jack Nicholson

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor. — Jack Nicholson

I want to keep on progressing. I definitely think acting is a long process to be one of the greats like Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson. — Nathan Gamble

Never rub another mans rhubarb — Jack Nicholson

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss. — Jack Nicholson

I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson. — Ray Wise

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. — Jack Nicholson

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch. — Jack Nicholson

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. — Jack Nicholson

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. — Jack Nicholson

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it. — Jack Nicholson

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! — Jack Nicholson

I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman. — Jack Nicholson

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. — Jack Nicholson

I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late. — Judi Dench

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. — Jack Nicholson

There's only two people in your life you should lie to ... the police and your girlfriend. — Jack Nicholson

Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule? — Jack Nicholson

I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth. — Jack Nicholson

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop. — Jack Nicholson

Well, I never got to meet Jack Nicholson. — Mackenzie Astin

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation. — Jack Nicholson

You make me want to be a better man. — Jack Nicholson

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close. — Lukas Haas

I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher. — Madchen Amick

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age. — Jack Nicholson

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. — Jack Nicholson

I'd love to do like a modern day 'Shining' and play the Jack Nicholson role. — Janet Montgomery

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. — Jack Nicholson

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. — Jack Nicholson

Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect. — Jack Nicholson

Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise. — Jack Nicholson

We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round. — Jack Nicholson

There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward. — Jack Nicholson

You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be. — Jack Nicholson

I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it. — Jack Nicholson

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it. — Jack Nicholson

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity. — Jack Nicholson

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it. — Jack Nicholson

I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness. — Jack Nicholson

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. — Jack Nicholson

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. — Jack Nicholson

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. — Jack Nicholson

You can't handle the truth! — Jack Nicholson

I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song. — Elliott Smith

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis. — Jack Nicholson

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. — Jack Nicholson

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film. — Jack Nicholson

If I could transform my stage life to the movies, I'd be Jack Nicholson. — Brian Dennehy

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. — Jack Nicholson

I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks. — Jack Kilmer

I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home. — Jack Nicholson

Jack. What you said about endings. — William Nicholson

When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal. — Jack Nicholson

How would I like to be seen? Very endearing, charming, intelligent, handsome. — Jack Nicholson

The camera photographs what's there. — Jack Nicholson

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world. — Jack Nicholson

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else. — Jack Nicholson