Jack Nicholson Quotes
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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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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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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I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
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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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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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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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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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I have a lot of vanity.
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I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.
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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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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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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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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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I'm not hard to get along with.
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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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In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
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There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.
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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.