Jack Nicholson Quotes
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.
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If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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I'm not hard to get along with.
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We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
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My motto is: more good times.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.