Jack Nicholson Quotes
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.
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Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.
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Ken Noland would use concentric circles; he'd want to get them in the middle of the painting because it's the easiest way to get them there, and he want them there in the front, on the surface of the canvas. If you're that much involved with the surface of anything, you're bound to find symmetry the most natural means.
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Out of sheer stubbornness, I just would keep going - just hoping that at some point something would click. I certainly held onto the hope that it might. I had no guarantees, but I trusted that if I worked hard and put in the time, it would eventually reap a fruit. I just didn't know what that fruit was going to be or how big it was going to be.
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
