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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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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.
Jack Nicholson
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
Jack Nicholson -
I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
Jack Nicholson -
I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
Jack Nicholson -
With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
Jack Nicholson -
I'm not hard to get along with.
Jack Nicholson -
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.
Jack Nicholson
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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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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.
Jack Nicholson -
My motto is: more good times.
Jack Nicholson -
Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
Jack Nicholson -
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.
Jack Nicholson -
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.
Jack Nicholson
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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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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
Jack Nicholson -
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.
Jack Nicholson -
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.
Jack Nicholson -
I'm definitely still wild at heart.
Jack Nicholson -
Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
Jack Nicholson
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
Jack Nicholson -
Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
Jack Nicholson -
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.
Jack Nicholson -
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.
Jack Nicholson