Jack Nicholson Quotes
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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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.
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My motto is: more good times.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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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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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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I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
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I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
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I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.
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What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.
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If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
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I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
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The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
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I'm a good friend.
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
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I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.
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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.