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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You want to go into scenes thinking not that you're the good guy or the bad guy, but that you've got a job to do. And I'm not talking about as an actor; I'm talking about as the character.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead.
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As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
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Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
