Jack Nicholson Quotes
Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.
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Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.
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We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them.
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My first job was a McDonald's commercial. It made me want to wake up at 4 A.M. to do something I loved. I haven't been the same since.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
