Jack Nicholson Quotes
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
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One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
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In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.
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I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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It’s pretty good, but it’s alright.
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One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
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The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.
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I don't even know if hip-hop is music anymore. It's definitely rhythm. It's definitely tempo. It's definitely beats per minute. But it's product. And television is product placement for the most part. It's not passion.
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I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
